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Subtopic: Microbiomes
Soil microbial gene expression over one year of human decomposition
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December 2025
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FEMS Microbiology Ecology
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Forensic Insights from Shotgun Metagenomics: Tracing Microbial Exchange During Sexual Intercourse
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March 2025
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Forensic Science International: Genetics
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Potential Postmortem Microbial Biomarkers of Infant and Younger Children Death Investigation
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December 2024
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Journal of Forensic Sciences
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Transient Hypoxia Drives Soil Microbial Community Dynamics and Biogeochemistry During Human Decomposition
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2024
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FEMS Microbiology Ecology
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DNA Contamination, Degradation, Damage and Associated Microbiomes: A Comparative Analysis through Massive Parallel Sequencing and Electrophoresis
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2024
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the gut microbiome: An ecological perspective
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August 2023
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PLoS ONE
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Salinity Impacts the Functional mcrA and dsrA Gene Abundances in Everglades Marshes
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April 2023
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Microorganisms
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MPrESS: An R-Package for Accurately Predicting Power for Comparisons of 16S rRNA Microbiome Taxa Distributions including Simulation by Dirichlet Mixture Modeling
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April 2023
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Microorganisms
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The Persistence and Stabilization of Auxiliary Genes in the human Skin Virome
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March 2023
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Virology Journal
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Microbial interactions of the necrobiome
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February 2023
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The Microbiologist
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Microbial Ecology of Vertebrate Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems
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2023
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FEMS Microbiology Ecology
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Application of the Human Virome to Touched Objects and Hair Shafts
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2023
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Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Compositions To Cause Death in Medicolegal Investigations
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2023
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The devil is in the details: Variable impacts of season, BMI, sampling site temperature, and presence of insects on the post-mortem microbiome
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December 2022
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Frontiers in Microbiology
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Sampling from four geographically divergent young female populations demonstrates forensic geolocation potential in microbiomes
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December 2022
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Scientific Reports
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The microbiome of fly organs and fly-human microbial transfer during decomposition
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November 2022
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Forensic Science International
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Surveying the Total Microbiome as Trace Evidence for Forensic Identification
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October 2022
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The Evidence We Leave Behind (Part 2)
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June 2022
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The Evidence We Leave Behind
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May 2022
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Postmortem Skeletal Microbial Community Composition and Function in Buried Human Remains
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March 2022
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Msystems
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An Investigation of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors that Influence Soil Microbial Succession During Human Decomposition
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2022
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The Human Skin Virome: Diversity, Ecology, and Human Identification
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2022
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Improving Human Identification Using the Human Skin Microbiome
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2022
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Microbiota succession throughout life from the cradle to the grave
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2022
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Nature Reviews: Microbiology
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Microbial succession in human rib skeletal remains and fly-human microbial transfer during decomposition
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2022
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