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Characterizing forensically important insect and microbial community colonization patterns in buried remains.
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- Post-Mortem Interval and Microbiome Analysis through 16S rRNA Analysis: A Systematic Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Analysis and Human Post-Mortem Microbial Community: A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- The devil is in the details: Variable impacts of season, BMI, sampling site temperature, and presence of insects on the post-mortem microbiome.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Advances in artificial intelligence-based microbiome for PMI estimation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Decomposition process for buried rat (Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2021Article
- Dismembered porcine limbs as a proxy for postmortem muscle protein degradation.International journal of legal medicine · 2021Article
- Potential bacterial biomarkers for insect colonization in forensic cases: preliminary quantitative data on Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica and Ignatzschineria indica dynamics.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- New Insights Into Culturable and Unculturable Bacteria Across the Life History of Medicinal MaggotsFrontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
During violent criminal actions in which the perpetrator disposes of the victim's remains by burial, the analysis of insects and bacterial colonization patterns could be necessary for postmortem interval (PMI) estimation. Our research aimed to assess the decomposition process of buried rat carcasses from shallow graves (40 cm), the diversity and dynamics of insects and bacteria throughout the decomposition stages, and the environmental parameters' influence on these variations. The results provide further insight on decomposition in soil and contribute to a broader understanding of the factors involved in decomposition by qualitatively and quantitatively analysing the decomposer community (bacteria and insects). Additionally, two bacterial taxa, Enterococcus faecalis and Clostridium paraputrificum that were investigated for the first time as PMI indicators using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) showed differential abundance over time, promising data for PMI estimation. The current study on the decomposition of buried rat carcasses in a natural environment will strengthen the current knowledge on decomposed remains from shallow graves and represents an effort to quantify insect and bacterial taxa as PMI estimators.
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