Utility of GenBank and the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) for the identification of forensically important Diptera from Belgium and France

Fly larvae living on dead corpses can be used to estimate post-mortem intervals. The identification of these flies is decisive in forensic casework and can be facilitated by using DNA barcodes provided that a representative and comprehensive reference library of DNA barcodes is available.We construc...

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Main Authors: Gontran Sonet, Kurt Jordaens, Yves Braet, Luc Bourguignon, Erena Dupont, Thierry Backeljau, Marc de Meyer, Stijn Desmyter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2013-12-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:http://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=3058