Al. Byrne et al., FORENSIC IMPLICATIONS OF BIOCHEMICAL DIFFERENCES AMONG GEOGRAPHIC POPULATIONS OF THE BLACK BLOW FLY, PHORMIA-REGINA (MEIGEN), Journal of forensic sciences, 40(3), 1995, pp. 372-377
Cuticular hydrocarbons were extracted from individual adult blow flies
from three geographic populations of Phormia regina from areas near T
ucannon River and Lyle Grove, Washington, and from Rensselaer, Indiana
. The individual extracts were subjected to gas chromatography/mass sp
ectrometry (GC/MS), and 22 hydrocarbons were identified. Discriminant
analysis of the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles separated the flies acc
ording both to location and gender. These results have potential foren
sic applications in the determination of corpse relocation and in the
study of the population ecology of species and populations.