General Department of Criminal Evidence, Kuwait.
Forensic Sci Int. 2012 Apr 10;217(1-3):27-31. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.09.021. Epub 2011 Oct 20.
Rabbit carcasses were used to compare rates of decomposition and associated assemblages of Diptera at four discernable habitat types in Kuwait; a country of a region with a paucity of such reference data. Carcasses in an urban habitat showed faster decomposition (as measured by percentage weight loss) than in agricultural, coastal or desert habitats, even with accumulated degree days (ADD) as the explanatory variable (t=2.73, df=34, p=0.010) to compensate for temperature differences. Taxa of Diptera at the four habitats became more similar as decomposition progressed, suggesting such differences between habitats were not marked. The occurrence of Chrysomyia megacephala and Lucilia sericata had not previously been recorded in Kuwait.
用兔尸比较了科威特四个可分辨生境类型（城市、农业、沿海和沙漠）中蝇类的分解速率及其相关组合；科威特地区这种参考数据非常匮乏。城市生境中的兔尸比农业、沿海或沙漠生境中的兔尸分解得更快（以百分比重量损失来衡量），即使使用累积度日（ADD）作为解释变量（t=2.73，df=34，p=0.010）来补偿温度差异也是如此。随着分解的进行，四个生境中的蝇类分类单元变得更加相似，表明生境之间的差异并不明显。此前在科威特没有记录到嗜人瘤蝇和丝光绿蝇的发生。
