A brief history of forensic entomology

Benecke, Mark

doi:10.1016/s0379-0738(01)00409-1

Cited by 194 publications

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“…Similar result showed by the previous mitochondrial and nuclear data based research (Dsouli et al 2011). Although Muscidae flies are important insects for the forensic entomology (Benecke 2001), it is hard to identify specimens by morphological examination because of highly similar morphological appearance according to metamorphic stages (Lan et al 2015). Therefore, complete mitochondrial genome sequences can be important tool in forensic entomology for identifying species.…”

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Sequencing and analyzing complete mitochondrial DNA ofMuscina angustifrons(Insecta, Diptera, Muscidae)

Karagozlu

Park

Shin

et al. 2017

Mitochondrial DNA Part B

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In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome sequenced and analyzed from a fly, Muscina angustifrons which collected from South Korea. The size of mitochondrial genome is 16,316 bp with 40.9% A, 12.3% C, 8.4% G and 38.4% T distribution. Furthermore, phylogenetic relationships of the superfamily Muscoidea evaluated due to mitochondrial protein coding genes. The results showed that the family Muscidae is a paraphyletic group and the closest species to M. angustifrons is M. levida. This is the third complete mitochondrial genome for the genus Muscina and the first genus record from South Korea.

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Sequencing and analyzing complete mitochondrial DNA ofMuscina angustifrons(Insecta, Diptera, Muscidae)

Karagozlu

Park

Shin

et al. 2017

Mitochondrial DNA Part B

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“…Among these, 7 were case reports [13][14][15][16][17][18][19], 3 case series [6,20,21], 19 original articles [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40], 4 were technical notes [41][42][43][44] and 8 were reviews [1,10,[45][46][47][48][49][50].…”

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“…Moreover, entomological books and forensic entomology and pathology manuals [7][8][9][10][11][12], which include chapters dedicated to the description of post-mortem artefacts in death scene, were also included.…”

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Crime scene and body alterations caused by arthropods: implications in death investigation

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The activity of arthropods on corpses has been largely investigated, since they can produce information to reconstruct the perimortem events. However, the feeding/movement activity of insects around the crime scene, among the clothes and on the body, can also cause some alterations that can lead to wrong reconstruction and misinterpretations. This article summarises all the postmortem arthropods artefacts related to the scene (i.e. fly artefacts and floor stripes) and the body (i.e. skin and other soft tissue alterations, bone alterations and hair alterations) that can mislead the forensic pathologist, discussing macroscopic and microscopic findings derived from forensic casework and from experimental laboratory studies, in order to provide a useful instrument to avoid misinterpretations and evaluation errors. Finally, some procedural notes for the documentation and the interpretation of findings are proposed.

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“…the analysis of the postmortem interval is based on the different changes that a corpse suffers after death including: physical processes (body cooling and hypostasis); metabolic processes (supravital reactions); autolysis (loss of selective membrane permeability, diffusion); physicochemical processes (rigor mortis); bacterial processes (putrefaction) [1][2][3][4][5]; and the effect of insect activity [6,7]. according to these processes, the methods of estimating the time since death can be quantitative, like the measurement of body cooling or potassium in vitreous humor [1], or qualitative, such as subjective descriptions of gastric contents [8,9].…”

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