Jordan Heather R, Tomberlin Jeffery K
Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 39705, USA.
Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Insects. 2017 May 24;8(2):54. doi: 10.3390/insects8020054.
A number of abiotic and biotic factors are known to regulate arthropod attraction, colonization, and utilization of decomposing vertebrate remains. Such information is critical when assessing arthropod evidence associated with said remains in terms of forensic relevance. Interactions are not limited to just between the resource and arthropods. There is another biotic factor that has been historically overlooked; however, with the advent of high-throughput sequencing, and other molecular techniques, the curtain has been pulled back to reveal a microscopic world that is playing a major role with regards to carrion decomposition patterns in association with arthropods. The objective of this publication is to review many of these factors and draw attention to their impact on microbial, specifically bacteria, activity associated with these remains as it is our contention that microbes serve as a primary mechanism regulating associated arthropod behavior.
已知许多非生物和生物因素可调节节肢动物对分解中的脊椎动物尸体的吸引、定殖和利用。在评估与上述尸体相关的节肢动物证据的法医相关性时，此类信息至关重要。相互作用不仅限于资源与节肢动物之间。还有另一个在历史上被忽视的生物因素；然而，随着高通量测序和其他分子技术的出现，帷幕被拉开，揭示了一个微观世界，这个微观世界在与节肢动物相关的腐肉分解模式中发挥着重要作用。本出版物的目的是回顾其中的许多因素，并提请注意它们对与这些尸体相关的微生物（特别是细菌）活动的影响，因为我们认为微生物是调节相关节肢动物行为的主要机制。
