Molecular identification of blowflies of forensic importance and thermal effects on their behaviour: tools to enhance forensic entomology in Australia

具有法医重要性的绿头苍蝇的分子鉴定及其行为的热效应：加强澳大利亚法医昆虫学的工具

• 批准号: LP0348925
• 负责人: Prof James Wallman
• 金额: $ 6.14万
• 依托单位: University of Wollongong
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Linkage Projects
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2003-12-18 至 2006-12-17
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/LP0348925
• 关键词: Molecular; identification; blowflies; forensic; importance

In suspicious deaths in which a body is found three or more days post-mortem, carrion-breeding blowflies provide time since death estimates. These estimates are currently slow and relatively broad due to (a) an inability to adequately distinguish immatures morphologically, and (b) insufficient information on the biological responses of different species to temperature. We will develop rapid molecular assays to distinguish blowfly species, and comprehensively chart the behavioural effects of temperature on the most forensically important blowflies. Molecular and adult morphological data will also be used to examine the evolution of the carrion-breeding blowflies.

在可疑的死亡中，尸体是在死后三天或三天以上被发现的，腐肉繁殖的绿头苍蝇提供了死亡时间的估计。 这些估计目前是缓慢和相对广泛的，由于（a）无法充分区分未成熟的形态，和（B）不同物种的生物反应温度的信息不足。 我们将开发快速的分子检测方法来区分绿头苍蝇的种类，并全面绘制温度对法医学上最重要的绿头苍蝇的行为影响。 分子和成年形态学数据也将用于研究腐肉繁殖绿头苍蝇的进化。