title: Differential Diptera succession patterns onto partially burned and unburned pig carrion in southeastern Brazil.
abstract: In the present contribution we compared the entomological succession pattern of a burned carcass with that of an unburned one. For that, we used domestic pig carcasses and focused on Calliphoridae, Muscidae and Sarcophagidae flies, because they are the ones most commonly used in Postmortem Interval estimates. Adult and immature flies were collected daily. A total of 27 species and 2,498 specimens were collected, 1,295 specimens of 26 species from the partially burned carcass and 1,203 specimens of 22 species from the control carcass (unburned). The species composition in the two samples differed, and the results of the similarity measures were 0.875 by Sorensen and 0.756 by Bray-Curtis index. The results obtained for both carcasses also differ with respect to the decomposition process, indicating that the post mortem interval would be underestimated if the entomological succession pattern observed for a carcass under normal conditions was applied to a carbonized carcass.
authors: Departamento de Polícia Técnica e Científica do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Criminalística Carlos Éboli, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Oliveira-Costa
authors: Universidade Castelo Branco - UCB, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors: C M D
authors: CM
authors: Lamego
authors: Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors: M S
authors: MS
authors: Couri
authors: Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors: C A
authors: CA
authors: Mello-Patiu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D001938:Brazil; D004175:Diptera / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D009117:Muscidae / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology; D058493:Sarcophagidae / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology; D034421:Sus scrofa / Q000469:parasitology*; D013997:Time Factors