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Taphonomic Marks on Pig Tissue Due to Cadaveric Coleoptera Activity Under Controlled Conditions
Fecha
2014-02Registro en:
Zanetti, Noelia Inés; Visciarelli, Elena Concepcion; Centeno, Néstor Daniel; Taphonomic Marks on Pig Tissue Due to Cadaveric Coleoptera Activity Under Controlled Conditions; Wiley; Journal of Forensic Sciences; 59; 4; 2-2014; 997-1001
0022-1198
1556-4029
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Zanetti, Noelia Inés
Visciarelli, Elena Concepcion
Centeno, Néstor Daniel
Resumen
The aim of this work was to study taphonomic marks that cadaveric coleopteran can produce under controlled conditions. To evaluate this, pig trotters were initially exposed to adults of Dermestes maculatus De Geer at 21 ± 5°C and a 12:12-h day/night cycle. Observations were made and photographs taken every 4–5 days for 9 months. When feeding and reproducing, D. maculatus produced, in both adult and larvae stages, different types of marks such as holes, striations, scratches, and pits in several kinds of tissue such as integumental, connective, and muscular, in both their fresh and dried stages. Bite marks were also evident. The results in this study provide not only taphonomic but also biological and forensic information. This is the first time that this kind of experiment has been performed.