Insects' colonization of human corpses in warm and cold season
| Autor: | Heike Klotzbach, Klaus Püschel, Hilke Schroeder |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Calliphora vicina
media_common.quotation_subject Ecological succession Insect Warm season Pathology and Forensic Medicine Cadaver Animals Humans Colonization media_common biology Cold season Ecology Diptera fungi Temperature Feeding Behavior biology.organism_classification Time of death Coleoptera Issues ethics and legal aspects Pmi estimation Forensic Anthropology Seasons Entomology |
| Zdroj: | Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan). 5 |
| ISSN: | 1344-6223 |
| Popis: | The succession of insects is commonly used for estimation of the postmortem interval (PMI). In the warm season there are many insect species, which enable us to estimate the time of death, but in the cold season there are less species. For the estimation of a seasonal pattern, we examined 117 human corpses found in domestic environment during the year 2001. We found three typical ‘summer species’, active from May until October, three further species active from April until November. One blowfly species (Calliphora vicina) and the family of scuttle flies were active all over the year. These insects may be useful for PMI estimation in winter; however, further research concerning the developmental rate of scuttle flies is required. The distinct seasonal pattern of the early colonizing blowfly species allows to allocate the time of death to a particular time interval even in cases of long PMIs if empty puparia of these insects are found. q 2003 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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