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A test for carrion fly full siblings: a tool for detecting postmortem relocation of a corpse.
Journal of forensic sciences - 1 Mar 2012
Picard Christine J, Wells Jeffrey D
Abstract excerpt
We propose a genetic test for full sibship for a pair of carrion flies that could reveal the postmortem relocation of a corpse. A carrion fly larva is sometimes left behind when a corpse is moved. The discovery of full sibling larvae of approximately the same developmental stage at two locations would strongly suggest that a corpse was moved between those two sites. Distributions of pairwise comparisons of...
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