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With morphological features obscured by adipocere, it can be difficult or impossible to determine species identifications from blow fly puparia. We tested methods for removing adipocere without damaging puparia.
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Why is it important?
Identification of puparia is often necessary in advanced decomposition cases to help determine time of death.
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This page is a summary of: Cleaning Puparia for Forensic Analysis, Journal of Forensic Sciences, July 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.13121.
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