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Delayed insect access alters carrion decomposition and necrophagous insect community assembly

Date Published

2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Microbial Community Functional Change during Vertebrate Carrion Decomposition

Journal

PLoS ONE

Date Published

2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Seasonal Necrophagous Insect Community Assembly During Vertebrate Carrion Decomposition

Journal

Journal of Medical Entomology

Date Published

2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Inferring Age at Death for Japanese and Thai Skeletal Samples under a Bayesian Framework of Analysis: A Test of Priors and Their Effects on Estimation

Journal

Forensic Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia

Date Published

2019

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Paleodemography: From Archaeology and Skeletal Age Estimation to Life in the Past

Journal

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

Date Published

2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

A microbial clock provides an accurate estimate of the postmortem interval in a mouse model system

Journal

ELife

Date Published

2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

First Record of the Oriental Latrine Fly, Chrysomya Megacephala (Fabricius) (Diptera: Calliphoridae), in Tennessee, USA

Journal

Acta Parasitologica

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Rearing Container Size Impacts Immature Development Time of Phormia Regina (Meigen) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and Time of Colonization Estimations

Journal

Journal of Forensic Entomology

Date Published

February 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Do bone elasticity and postmortem interval affect forensic fractographic analyses?

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

May 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Fluvial Transport of Human Remains Forensic Application of a HECRAS Model for Predicting Search Parameters for Human Remains Recovered from the Sacramento River, CA

Date Published

December 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Landscape Study of Next Generation Sequencing Technologies for Forensic Applications

Date Published

April 2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Microbiome Surrounding Death and Decay: Microbial Ecology of Food Processing, Meat Spoilage, and Human Decomposition Environments

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation, Research (Applied/Empirical)

DNA Analysis and the Postmortem Submersion Interval from the Microbiome of Waterlogged Skeletal Remains

Date Published

July 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation, Research (Applied/Empirical)

A high resolution study of long-term vertebrate decomposition in human and animal model systems

Date Published

December 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation, Research (Applied/Empirical)

The Impact of Drugs on Human Decomposition and the Postmortem Interval: Insect, Scavenger and Microbial Evidence

Date Published

2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Linking Internal Organ Microbiome and Metabolome Compositions To Cause Death in Medicolegal Investigations

Date Published

2023

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Forensic entomology when the evidence is “no insect.” Best carrion fly species for predicting maximum postmortem interval in the United Arab Emirates

Journal

Forensic Science International

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Differential Scavenging Among Pig, Rabbit, and Human Subjects

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Differential Decomposition Among Pig, Rabbit, and Human Remains

Journal

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Not by the Book: Observations of Delayed Oviposition and Re-Colonization of Human Remains by Blow Flies

Journal

Insects

Date Published

September 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Body Mass Index (BMI) Impacts Soil Chemical and Microbial Response to Human Decomposition

Journal

mSphere

Date Published

September 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

NIJ Awards Over $11 Million to Support Forensic Science Research and Development in 2022

On September 30, 2022, NIJ announced $11.6 million in funding to support 23 projects under the “NIJ FY22 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes” solicitation. Through its research and development grant funding, NIJ continues to advance the speed, accuracy, and reliability of forensic analysis, which ultimately bolsters the...

Animal Models for Understanding Microbial Decomposition of Human Remains

Journal

Drug Discovery Today

Date Published

2018

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Gull (Laridae) Taphonomy at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Maine, USA

15PNIJ-22-GG-04407-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$139,905

Expanding and validating microbiome database for estimating the postmortem interval

15PNIJ-22-GG-04402-MUMU

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$834,503