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Do longer sequences improve the accuracy of identification of forensically important Calliphoridae species? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Species identification is a crucial step in forensic entomology. In several cases the calculation of the larval age allows the estimation of the minimum Post-Mortem Interval (mPMI).
Sara Bortolini +4 more
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Unexpected Evolutionary Divergence of Tachykinin-Positive Neurons Innervating the Central Complex in Hexapods. [PDF]
J Comp NeurolThe central complex is a group of midline‐spanning neuropils in the brain of insects with a key role in goal‐directed orientation and navigation. Immunolabeling in 25 species, ranging from bristletails to flies, shows that neurons containing peptides of the tachykinin family of neuropeptides are present in most species studied.
Homberg U +8 more
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Seasonal blowfly distribution and abundance in fragmented landscapes. Is it useful in forensic inference about where a corpse has been decaying? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Blowflies are insects of forensic interest as they may indicate characteristics of the environment where a body has been laying prior to the discovery. In order to estimate changes in community related to landscape and to assess if blowfly species can be
Jabi Zabala +2 more
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Allometry of Ingestion Among Habitat Mimicking Praying Mantises. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe investigate the allometry of ingestion among habitat mimicking praying mantises. We found strong relations to body size, but not camouflage. We compare our results to handling time in other predatory groups. ABSTRACT Ingestion is the process of consuming a resource and is a component of an organism's handling time, which can limit the acquisition of
Oufiero C, Wood M, McMillan E.
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Insects, 2021 Establishing the post mortem interval (PMI) is a key component of every medicolegal death investigation. Several methods based on different approaches have been suggested to perform this estimation.
Lorenzo Franceschetti +5 more
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Effects of cocaine and heroin, and their combination, on the development rate of Calliphora vomitoria (Diptera: Calliphoridae) [PDF]
Science & Justice, 2022 Insects present on or near decomposing bodies are collected by forensic entomologists and used to estimate the post-mortem interval. Drugs metabolized by a person before death may affect the rate of development of insects feeding on the corpse. This study aimed to determine the effects of cocaine and heroin main metabolites on the development rate of ...
Wood, T., Pyper, K., Casali, F.
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Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2022 Introduction: Calliphoridae plays a key role in forensic entomology research, which is one of the first insects to decompose animal carcasses.The mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I and the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) are ...
Mengzi Yang +4 more
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Insects, 2021 Blowflies are vectors of microorganisms and human pathogens, and their maggots cause myiasis in vertebrates and infest and spoil meat and fish products.
Priscilla Farina +9 more
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Origins and Diversification of Myiasis Across Blowflies. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis study investigates the evolutionary path to parasitism in blowflies, modeling traits such as trophic specialization, larval food substrate, and developmental temperature. Our results support that blowfly parasitism evolved from saprophagy or facultative parasitism, emphasizing the crucial role of facultative parasitism as a transitional stage ...
Cardoso GA +7 more
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, 2020 Published as part of Verves, Yu. G., Khrokalo, L. A. & Verves, K. Yu., 2020, The new records of Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae (Diptera) from Myrhorod, Poltava Region, Ukraine, pp. 7-14 in Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 11 (2) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo ...
Verves, Yu. G. +2 more
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