Williams H
Forensic Sci Int. 1984 Jul;25(3):191-9. doi: 10.1016/0379-0738(84)90193-2.
A method is described for determining the time of hatching of blowfly larvae on a corpse with respect to temperature. Temperature is known to have a profound effect on the rate of growth of fly larvae, and it is suggested that past assumptions that the growth of larvae found in a corpse has taken place at one approximated ambient temperature may have led to large overestimates of the development time of the larvae, and thus overestimates of time of death. Larvae of Lucilia cuprina, Calliphora vicina (= erythrocephala), Calliphora stygia and Calliphora hilli were cultured under constant temperatures, and their growth rates modeled with a logistic growth curve. Two programmes have been developed, one to compute the parameters for the logistic equations, the other is used to estimate the time elapsed from the time at which a sample is removed from a body to the estimated hatching time of the larvae comprising the sample, with temperatures and species as variables.
本文描述了一种确定蝇幼虫在尸体上孵化时间与温度关系的方法。已知温度对蝇幼虫的生长速度有深远影响，有人提出，过去认为在尸体中发现的幼虫生长是在一个近似的环境温度下进行的假设，可能导致对幼虫发育时间的大幅高估，进而高估死亡时间。在恒温条件下培养了铜绿蝇、红头丽蝇（=红首丽蝇）、嗜尸丽蝇和希氏丽蝇的幼虫，并用逻辑斯谛生长曲线对其生长速率进行建模。已开发出两个程序，一个用于计算逻辑斯谛方程的参数，另一个用于估计从从尸体上取出样本的时间到样本中幼虫估计孵化时间之间经过的时间，温度和物种为变量。
