A microbial clock provides an accurate estimate of the postmortem interval in a mouse model system

A microbial clock provides an accurate estimate of the postmortem interval in a mouse model system

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Establishing the time since death is critical in every death investigation, yet existing techniques are susceptible to a range of errors and biases.For example, forensic entomology is widely used to assess the postmortem interval (PMI), but errors can range from days to months.Microbes may provide a novel method Cooling for estimating PMI that avoids many of these limitations.

Here we show that postmortem microbial community changes are dramatic, measurable, and repeatable in a mouse model system, allowing PMI to be estimated within approximately 3 days over 48 days.Our results provide a detailed understanding of bacterial and microbial eukaryotic ecology MINERAL within a decomposing corpse system and suggest that microbial community data can be developed into a forensic tool for estimating PMI.