Soil Fungal Communities Investigated by Metabarcoding Within Simulated Forensic Burial Contexts

Decomposition of animal bodies in the burial environment plays a key role in the biochemistry of the soil, altering the balance of the local microbial populations present before the introduction of the carcass. Despite the growing number of studies on decomposition and soil bacterial populations, le...

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Main Authors: Noemi Procopio, Stefano Ghignone, Samuele Voyron, Marco Chiapello, Anna Williams, Andrew Chamberlain, Antonietta Mello, Michael Buckley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01686/full