Trevor Stamper

TL;DR: This technique was successfully used to develop microsatellite markers in several plant species by combining two techniques in the same PCR reaction: custom-labeling of primers by the investigator and multiplexing multiple primers together in thesame reaction.

TL;DR: The phylogenetic results strongly support the hypothesis that L. cuprina and L. sericata can be discriminated using mtDNA sequence data, and it is found that a fragment of COI spanning approximately 1200 base pairs is sufficient to discriminate between the two species with greater than 95% bootstrap support.

TL;DR: It is found that nocturnal ovipositing did not occur in the Cincinnati metropolitan area and the behavioral patterns of carrion flies at night represent a window of time that potentially has a large impact on postmortem interval estimations.

TL;DR: Nocturnal exposure of rat carcasses at three sites in the Cincinnati metropolitan region was used to examine this behavior for two field seasons, 2005 and 2006 and nocturnal ovipositing was not found to occur.

TL;DR: For both calliphorid species, weather station data were associated with more accurate PCI estimates than temperature loggers associated with each carcass, which provide an important step towards improving entomological evidence collection and analysis techniques, and developing forensic error rates.