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March 2015

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Modeling blow fly development for postmortem interval (PMI) estimation

Lucilia sericata mouthhooks

March 3, 2015

Modeling blow fly development for postmortem interval (PMI) estimation

Knowing the development behavior of blow flies is important for forensic investigations into the time of death. This study examined the development of Lucilia sericata under different temperature regimes. It is one of the first to elucidate fundamentally important assumptions made by practitioners in the field.

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March 24, 2015

Selection of reference genes for quantitative RT-PCR (RT-qPCR) analysis of rat tissues under physiological and toxicological conditions

36 citations

8,929 downloads

3,547 views

Terje Svingen, Heidi Letting, Niels Hadrup, Ulla Hass, Anne Marie Vinggaard

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.855 PubMed 25825680

March 31, 2015

Effect of different heterotrophic plate count methods on the estimation of the composition of the culturable microbial community

6 citations

1,006 downloads