药（毒）物对尸食性蝇类生长发育影响的研究进展

药（毒）物对尸食性蝇类生长发育影响是法医昆虫毒理学领域里一个十分重要的研究方向,其研究结果可对与药（毒）物相关死亡案件的死亡时间作出修正。随着近年来全球毒品及药物滥用情况的日趋严重,其所导致的死亡案件也越来越多。这类案件常常需要应用尸食性蝇类生长发育历期来推算死后经历时间（postmortem interval, PMI）。为了阐明该领域的研究进展以及未来研究的焦点和难点,本文在阐述法医昆虫毒理学概念和特点的基础上,按照不同的药（毒）物分类,对近年来药（毒）物对尸食性蝇类生长发育影响在国内外的研究进展进行了综述。研究表明,某些药（毒）物对尸食性蝇类生长发育具有一定的影响,且这种影响存在种属差异。目前,该领域的研究尚限于宏观现象观察阶段,其研究范围在不断拓宽,既有的研究也在进一步深化,但还有许多问题有待进一步探讨。     

双向凝胶电泳图谱用于常见尸食性蝇类初孵幼虫的鉴别

双向凝胶电泳分析技术已在生物科学各领域被广泛应用,蛋白质组作图的意义已经日益显现。通过对4种常见尸食性蝇类初孵幼虫蛋白质组双向凝胶电泳和图象分析,发现各种类间双向凝胶电泳图谱差异显著,并对相应的等电点和相对分子量进行聚类和判别分析,结果表明,建立合适的尸食性蝇类初孵幼虫的双向凝胶电泳图谱可用于鉴别形态学极易混淆的昆虫种类。图4参17     

五种常见嗜尸性蝇类的分子鉴定

为了解决法医学人员对于嗜尸性蝇类的鉴定难题,对中山市、广州市及西安市5种常见嗜尸性蝇类共17个样本,对其线粒体COⅠ基因的348 bp大小片段进行了RFLP和DNA序列分析,采用ABI377测序仪测序,DNASTAR软件预测限制性位点,DdeⅠ, DraⅠ和HinfⅠ3种限制性内切酶消化,非变性聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳检测酶切结果,MEGA3.0软件包进行序列分析和构建系统发育树。结果表明： 采用mtDNA扩增结合银染技术和DNA序列分析,均可以方便快捷地进行上述三地5种常见嗜尸性蝇类的种类鉴定。本文结果为法医昆虫学中嗜尸性昆虫DNA鉴定数据库的建立提供了数据资料。     

沈阳地区室内常见尸食性蚤蝇幼期识别

利用尸食性蝇类发育生物学推断死后间隔时间的前提是对其幼期种属的准确鉴定。本文对沈阳地区室内常见的4种尸食性蚤蝇幼期的主要形态特征进行了描述。结果表明：根据其口器、体壁突起、气门和呼吸角等特征不仅可以区分虫龄,还可以鉴别4种蚤蝇。     

二种尸食性蝇类幼虫形态学变化及在法医学上的意义

为了满足实际工作中利用蝇类幼虫日龄推断尸体死后间隔时间的需求,采用形态观察与图像分析相结合的方法对巨尾阿丽蝇Aldrichina grahami(Aldrich)、大头金蝇Chrysomya megacephala(Fabricius)幼虫前气门、后气门、头咽骨进行了研究,筛选适合日龄推断的指标。结果显示:2种尸食性蝇类幼虫前气门、后气门、头咽骨均随着时间的延长发生规律性的变化。其中,咽骨的骨化面积、平均光密度,后气门的平均光密度是最理想的判断幼虫日龄的指标,为法医昆虫学精确推断死后间隔时间提供重要的指导意义。     

我国嗜尸性蝇类的鉴别、发育及演替研究现状与分析

嗜尸性蝇类是法医昆虫学调查中最重要的目标,作为早期到达尸体并主要促成尸体组织腐解的昆虫,对死亡时间的推断,特别是腐败尸体死亡时间的推断具有重大意义。本文针对我国嗜尸性蝇类的主要种类及形态识别、各种类生长发育、在尸体上的演替进行了综述。     

北京地区7种常见嗜尸性蝇类的COI基因序列分析及DNA条形码的建立

嗜尸性蝇类在命案死亡时间和现场推断方面有着十分重要的应用, 而DNA 条形编码技术能摆脱对虫卵和幼虫的饲养以及后续物种鉴定方面专业知识的依赖, 有助于实现现场采集蝇类样本的快速鉴定。本研究采集了北京地区7个嗜尸性蝇类优势种共77个个体的样本, 测定了所有个体线粒体DNA 上细胞色素C氧化酶亚基Ⅰ（COI）基因1 120 bp的序列。基于序列的系统发生分析显示, 同一物种不同个体的序列均以高达99%的支持值聚集在一起。序列间的分歧统计表明这些蝇类在物种内的个体分歧不超过1%, 而不同物种间的净分歧均超过7.74%, 最高可达14.85%。滑动窗口分析表明, 在整个序列区段种间差异位点存在较平均的分布。通过测定COI基因的序列, 建立了北京地区7个嗜尸性蝇类优势种的DNA条形码, 据此实现了对这些物种准确、快速、简单的区分和鉴定, 同时也为后续应用于物种鉴定的种属特异性位点之筛选提供了基础数据。     

不同温度条件下棕尾别麻蝇的生长发育及其在法医学上的意义

棕尾别麻蝇Boettcherisca peregrine分布很广,也是我国南方地区尸体上较为常见的麻蝇类昆虫.本文探讨温度对重要的尸食性昆虫棕尾别麻蝇生长发育的影响,在15℃、20℃、25℃、30℃、35℃五个恒温条件下,实验测得棕尾别麻蝇的发育历期分别为33.2±0.3、21.6±0.3、15.9±0.7、13.8±0.5、11.8±0.2 d;实验结果表明,棕尾别麻蝇发育历期随温度的升高而缩短;其生长的最适温度在25～30℃;35℃时幼虫能够生长,但是不能正常化蛹,化蛹的个体也不能正常羽化;在15～35℃条件下,分别就幼虫的体长、体宽、体重和蛹重与时间的回归分析表明这些指标与时间呈三次曲线关系,回归方程统计检验达到极显著水平(P＜＜0.01).研究结果对死后间隔时间的推断具有一定的法医学意义.     

上海地区最常见嗜尸性蝇类三龄幼虫图解检索表

本文提供上海地区最常见嗜尸性蝇类三龄幼虫图解检索表,共4科11种.该检索表可用于案发现场法医昆虫的分类鉴定,进而推断尸体的死亡时间,也可用于重要有瓣蝇类幼虫的孽生地调查.     

西安地区家兔尸体上尸食性昆虫的初步观察

置家兔尸体于室外空地进行观察,研究春季西安地区家兔尸体上昆虫群落的组成及演替规律。结果表明西安地区春季常见的尸食性的昆虫包括3目11科16种,其中双翅目的巨尾阿丽蝇Aldrichina grahami、鞘翅目一种阎甲Margarinotus sp.为优势种。尸体上昆虫群落的演替有明显的时间规律可循,昆虫类群的出现时间与尸体的腐败阶段有明确的对应关系,可以为法医科学中推测死亡时间提供依据。     

Forensic entomology: a new hypothesis for the chronological succession pattern of necrophagous insect on human corpses

Forensic entomology can help to estimate the time elapsed since death, by studying the necrophagous species collected on a cadaver and its surroundings. The determination of the so- called post mortem interval (PMI or period of first oviposition) is based on the development time of necrophagous dipterans and on the chronological pattern of insects’ succession on the corpse throughout the decaying process. In the present study, authors investigated this succession by the analysis of the database of the Department of Forensic Entomology of the French Gendarmerie over 12 years (1992–2003) in order to propose a new approach and a new hypothsesis of the dynamic of necrophagous-insects’ populations present on a human cadaver over time. For all treated cases, the presence/absence and the oldest development stage of the species were recorded. Data were analyzed by statistical and Wagner parsimony methods. The statistic results allowed the association of groups of species with typical developmental stages. The Wagner parsimony analysis showed that the dynamic of the necrophagous insect population present on a cadaver could be characterised by specific species. Together, they allowed establishing hypotheses of succession of necrophagous insects on human cadavers over time that could be usefull in the PMI estimation.     

Spatial and temporal variability of necrophagous Diptera from urban to rural areas

The spatio-temporal variability of necrophagous fly assemblages in a linear series of habitats from central London to the rural surroundings in the south-west was studied using bottle traps between June 2001 and September 2002. A total of 3,314 individuals in 20 dipteran families were identified from 127 sampling occasions. Calliphoridae accounted for 78.6% of all the dipteran specimens, with Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy, being the most abundant species (2,603 individuals, 46.9%). Using canonical correspondence analyses (CCA) on 72 fly taxa, six sampled sites and 36 environmental variables, three habitat types corresponding to three groups of flies were identified. These were an urban habitat characterized by C. vicina, Lucilia illustris (Meigen) and L. sericata (Meigen), a rural grassland habitat, characterized by L. caesar (Linnaeus) and a rural woodland habitat characterized by Calliphora vomitoria (Linnaeus), Phaonia subventa (Harris), Neuroctena anilis (Fallén) and Tephrochlamys flavipes (Zetterstedt). Intermediate species (L. ampullacea Villeneuve and P. pallida (Fabricius), located between the three habitats, were also found. Temporal abundance of the 10 most abundant species showed fluctuations between seasons, having low numbers of captured individuals during winter. Correspondence analysis showed clearly seasonal patterns at Box Hill site. The species-habitat associations suggest habitat differentiation between necrophagous guilds in this area and may be of ecological value.     

Behavioural response of Lucilia sericata to a decaying body infested by necrophagous insects

Numerous insect species are necrophagous, with Dipterans and Coleopterans being the most abundant on a corpse. Whether the presence of necrophageous species on a corpse affects the attraction of adult blowflies to the corpse is sparsely studied. We test the hypothesis that Lucilia sericata can discriminate the odour of a noncolonized cadaver from the odour of a cadaver on which conspecific and/or heterospecific necrophagous insects are feeding. The volatile organic compounds are collected from decomposing rats under four modalities: (i) in the absence of insects; (ii) in the presence of L. sericata adults; (iii) in the presence of Dermestes frischii adults; (iv) and in the presence of both D. frischii adults and L. sericata adults. During a multiple‐choice bioassay, blowflies are exposed to the four odour samples, and are shown to prefer the odour of a corpse where conspecific larvae are present. We also expect blowflies to avoid cadavers on which predators where present, although L. sericata are not repulsed by the odour of a cadaver colonized by hide beetles. We then compare the average quantities of all 61 volatile molecules identified, finding that the presence of necrophagous insects impacts some of them. However, none of the volatile organic compounds previously reported in the literature as being attractive for L. sericata adults are impacted by the presence of necrophagous insects. The results of the present study suggest that blowfly larvae modify the volatilome of a corpse, enabling adults to discriminate a colonized from a noncolonized corpse.     

Occurrence of oriental flies associated with indoor and outdoor human remains in the tropical climate of north Malaysia

Flies attracted to human remains during death investigations were surveyed in north Peninsular Malaysia. Six families, eight genera, and 16 species were identified from human remains, with the greatest fly diversity occurring on remains recovered indoors. The total relative frequency of species was led by Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius, 1794) (46%), followed by Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart, 1842) (22%), Sarcophaga (Liopygia) ruficornis (Fabricius, 1974) (5%), Sarcophaga spp. (4%), Synthesiomyia nudiseta Wulp, 1883 (6%), Megaselia spp. (3%), Megaselia scalaris (Loew, 1866), (2%), Megaselia spiracularis Schmitz, 1938 (2%), and Chrysomya villeneuvi Patton, 1922 (2%). Hemipyrellia tagaliana (Bigot, 1877), Desmometopa sp., Megaselia curtineura (Brues, 1909), Hemipyrellia ligurriens Wiedemann 1830, Ophyra sp., Sarcophaga princeps Wiedemann 1830, Piophila casei (Linnaeus, 1758), and unidentified pupae each represented 1%, respectively.     

Seasonal composition and temporal succession of necrophagous and predator beetles on pig carrion in central Argentina

Insects are the most important components of the terrestrial fauna associated with carrion because they recycle organic matter back into the ecosystem. They can be classified into four ecological categories comprising: necrophages; parasites and predators of necrophagous species; omnivores, and incidentals. To determine the composition and temporal succession of necrophagous and predator beetles on pig carrion, four experiments, one in each season, were carried out during 2004 in a rural area of Cordoba, central Argentina. Two pigs (Sus scrofa L.), weighing approximately 8 kg each, were used in each of the four experiments. The animals were killed by a sharp blow to the head and immediately placed in an appropriate trap. One pig was placed in the shade and the other in direct sunlight. Beetle fauna were collected daily during the first 4 weeks and thereafter every 2 or 3 days. Five stages of decomposition were observed and a total of 1586 adults and 4309 immatures of Coleoptera belonging to the Staphylinidae, Nitidulidae, Cleridae, Dermestidae, Histeridae, Anthicidae and Trogidae families were collected during the four experiments. The necrophagous community was represented by Dermestes maculates (De Geer), nitidulid species and members of the Trox genus. Staphylinidae, Cleridae and Histeridae species were considered to be the main predators of the necrophagous species.