Cuticular Hydrocarbon Analysis in Forensic Entomology: A Review

Forensic entomology in Germany.

Forensic entomology (FE) is increasingly gaining international recognition. In Germany, however, the development of FE has been stagnating, mainly because of the lack of cooperation between police, forensic medicine and entomology. In 1997 a co-operative research project 'Forensic Entomology' was started in Frankfurt/Main at the Center of Legal Medicine and the Research Institute Senckenberg. T...

Current Concepts in Forensic Entomology

Cuticular Hydrocarbon Research1

We have been studying existing taxonomies of forest insects that are based on morphological, genetic and/or behav­ ioral characteristics to evaluate the utility of cuticular (surface) hydrocarbons as taxonomic characters (Haverty and others 1988, 1989, Page and others 1990a, 1990b). Cuticular hydrocarbons are relatively stable metabolic end products that appear to be genetically fixed. Because ...

Forensic Entomology : An Indian Prospective

Insects are the dominant group of animals on earth today. They occur practically everywhere and far outnumber all other terrestrial animals taken together. Several hundred thousand different kinds of insects have been described, three times as many as there are in the rest of animal kingdom and some authorities believe that the total number of different species of insects may approach 30 millio...

A Decision Support System for Forensic Entomology

This paper presents a multiagent-based model of insect development on a dead body and a three layers Decision Support System architecture able to perform retrodictive (abductive) reasoning from multiagent-based models or more generally, complex systems models. This architecture is used in order to compute post-mortem intervals from entomological data sampled on cadavers. Knowing the exact time ...