microbial clock
English
Etymology
Coined by the microbial ecologist and evolutionary biologist Jessica Metcalf c. 2010.
Noun
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- (forensic science, forensic biology) The predictable, time-dependent succession of microbial communities during the postmortem decomposition of a body, used to estimate the postmortem interval.
References
- Beans, Carolyn (2 January 2018). "Can microbes keep time for forensic investigators?". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115 (1): 3–6 – via PubMed Central.