Adult blowflies can act as vectors of human DNA by depositing faecal or regurgitation spots
(termed artefacts) after feeding on meals of human biological fluid. Given the number of …

Mosquitoes (Culicidae) are widespread insects and can be important in forensic context as a
source of human DNA. In order to establish the quantity of human DNA in mosquitoes' gut …

The ability to identify individual human hosts based on analyses of blood recovered from the
digestive tract of hematophagous arthropods has been a long-term pursuit in both medical …

Poaching of wildlife for local consumption and commercial purposes is a major threat to the
loss of the world's biodiversity which has even resulted in the extirpation of the numerous …

Species identification of the early colonizers on a corpse, such as Calliphoridae and
Sarcophagidae, provides useful information for estimating the postmortem interval (PMI) …

Blowflies leave deposits, termed artefacts, through the processes of excretion and
regurgitation. To date, little consideration has been given to the possibility of adult blowflies …

Mammalian species identification is one of the important issues in forensic science.
Determining the origins of non-human biological material found at crime scenes can …

At a time when many aspects of forensic science are dominated by recent advances in the
field of molecular biology, it is no surprise that DNA technology should also become a tool of …

Analysis of non-human DNA in forensic science, first reported about two decades ago, is
now commonplace. Results have been used as evidence in court in a variety of cases …

The forensic entomologist frequently bases time since death (TSD) estimation on fly larvae.
In some cases, the food source on which these larvae have completed their development …