Thanatomicrobiome composition profiling as a tool for forensic investigation

Thanatomicrobiome, or the postmortem microbiome, has been recognized as a useful microbial marker of the time and location of host death. In this mini-review, we compare the experimental methods commonly applied to thanatomicrobiome studies to the state-of-the-art methodologies in the microbiome fie...

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Main Authors: Wei Zhou, Yingnan Bian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2018-04-01
Series:Forensic Sciences Research
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20961790.2018.1466430