Review of some recent techniques of age determination of blow flies having forensic implications

Forensic entomology can aid death investigation by using predictable developmental changes to estimate the age of flies associated with a body. Forensic entomologists use size and developmental stages to estimate blowfly age, and from those, a Postmortem Interval. Calliphorids are very interesting i...

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Main Authors: Madhu Bala, Anika Sharma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-09-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090536X15000490