Human thanatomicrobiota studies have shown that microorganisms inhabit and proliferate externally and internally throughout the body and are the primary mediators of putrefaction after death. Yet litt
Post-mortem microbial communities are increasingly investigated as proxy evidence for a variety of factors of interest in forensic science. The reported predictive power of the microbial community to
n this experiment, skin swabs from the palm, belly, groin, and foot of volunteers were collected, and the microbial diversity of these samples was analyzed by 16S rDNA high-throughput sequencing, reve
We sequenced microbiomes associated with skin and soil samples of 12 decomposing human bodies. Three bodies were placed each at SHSU STAFS, CMU FIRS, and UTK FAC
