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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
Dr Shyamasree Ghosh (MSc, PhD) is currently working as the Scientific Officer (F), in the School of Biological Sciences, NISER, Bhubaneswar. She graduated from the Presidency College, under Calcutta University, with Zoology, Chemistry and Physiology. She pursued an MSc in Biotechnology at Calcutta University and completed PhD from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (ICB), CSIR Calcutta working on glycobiology and Acute Childhood Leukemia (ALL). In her Post-Doctoral work, she worked on stem cells, invertebrate immune systems and nanotechnology. She has also served as faculty in post graduate college affiliated with Bangalore University. She has worked extensively in domains of Zoology, immunology, glycobiology, sialo-biology, stem cells, computational biology and nanotechnology and authored and co-authored more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed international journals of repute, 10 books, several chapters and popular articles. She is serving as the Associate Editor for Frontiers in Immunology, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Applied Zoological Researches and Heliyon. She is a life member of different prestigious scientific bodies. She has been awarded by different scientific bodies.
Dr Dhriti Banerjee (MSc, PhD) is currently serving as the Scientist G and Director, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change under Govt of India. She graduated from Presidency College at Calcutta University in the year 1991. She pursued an MSc in Zoology at Calcutta University and completed her PhD from Kalyani University in the year 1999. She received several awards and fellowships. She joined ZSI almost three decades past and has been relentlessly working in the domain of Entomology and created history as the first woman Director of ZSI. She has more than 25 years of Scientific and Administrative experience. Her research interest lies in the taxonomy, forensic dipterology, climate modelling of flies (Diptera), tropic interaction, community relations in flies, and the biology of pollinators and Dipterans. She has published more than 100 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and authored or co-authored numerous books and book chapters. She was instrumental in setting up several databases for ZSI, the scientist in charge and coordinator of IT, Digitization and Databasing.
