Biology of Forensically Important Invertebrates

This book emphasizes the important role of invertebrates in forensic sciences in the detection of crimes, determining the time and place of death, estimating the minimum Post-Mortem Interval (PMI), and determining the cause of death. The initial chapter discusses the forensically essential invertebrates, especially flies under Order Diptera. Further, the book highlights the importance, biology, taxonomy, and biodiversity of flies under Order Diptera with forensic importance. It also discusses cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) and spectrometry-based studies reported from flies and larvae of forensic importance. It further reviews the importance of DNA barcoding in molecular taxonomy-based studies on forensic flies through understanding, identification, and grouping the organisms. Towards the end, this book presents the applications and limitations of forensic entomology in cases of animal cruelty to a veterinary professional.

Chapter 1. Forensic Entomology
Chapter 2. Insects in Forensic Entomology
Chapter 3. Forensic flies: Advances in Study through Morphological evidences
Chapter 4. Parasitoides and Forensic flies
Chapter 5. Recent developments in the study of Forensic Flies
Chapter 6. Molecular taxonomy and Forensic Entomology: where we stand today
Chapter 7. Forensic entomology and the veterinary world
Chapter 8. Climate change and forensic flies