A review of necrophagous insects colonising human and animal cadavers in south-east Queensland, Australia

A common legal challenge for forensic entomology relates to the scientific validity of substituting vertebrate remains for human remains in baseline studies [1]. Due to the legal and ethical issues of using human cadavers for research, forensic entomologists have used a variety of vertebrate animals (Table 1) to observe insect succession and generate the baseline data used for post mortem interval estimates in medicolegal cases. Pigs are by far the most internationally accepted human

Source: Forensic Science International - August 7, 2015 Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Julianne F. Farrell, Andrew E. Whittington, Myron P. Zalucki Tags: Technical Note Source Type: research