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Insects Help to Solve Crimes
Insects are found in almost any ecosystem. Even a corpse is a habitat with a typical succession of more or less specialized insect species, providing a resource for about 300–400 insect species. In addition to...
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Indoor Arthropods of Forensic Importance: Insects Associated with Indoor Decomposition and Mites as Indoor Markers
It is not surprising with the great diversity of arthropods that some members have evolved to take advantage of the sheltered habitat that we provide or to take advantage of us and our products. Anthropophilic...
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Analysing Forensic Entomology Data Using Additive Mixed Effects Modelling
Forensic pathologists and entomologists estimate the minimum post-mortem interval since a long time by describing the stage of succession and development of the necrophagous fauna (Amendt et al. 2004). From ve...
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Future Trends in Forensic Entomology
The science of forensic entomology has had a staggered and interesting history (Nuorteva 1977; Smith 1986; Erzinçlioglu 1990; Marchenko 2001; Amendt et al. 2004). Its main application is the estimation of the ...