Microbial communities associated with human decomposition and their potential use as postmortem clocks

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Zeitschrift für Rechtsmedizin

• Publication date

  2015-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00414-014-1059-0PMID 25129823
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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