Mitochondrial DNA-based identification of developmental stages and empty puparia of forensically important flies (Diptera) in Egypt

• Main Authors: Hedayat A Abdel Ghaffar (Author), Marie Z Moftah (Author), Alexandre Favereaux (Author), Mohamed Swidan (Author), Omar Shalaby (Author), Sara El Ramah (Author), Reda Gamal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Relying on morphology in the estimation of postmortem intervals is not always accurate for all life phases of flies, especially for immature stages. The present study demonstrates the application of cytochrome oxidase I sequences, a partial mitochondrial (mt) gene region, to differentiate forensical...