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REVIEW article

Front. Insect Sci.
Sec. Insect Physiology
Volume 4 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/finsc.2024.1411342
This article is part of the Research Topic Women in Insect Science, Volume II View all articles

Exploring the Impact of Xenobiotic Drugs on Forensic Entomology for Accurate Post-Mortem Interval Estimation

Provisionally accepted
Sapna Jain Sapna Jain 1*Jonathan J Parrott Jonathan J Parrott 2Gulnaz T Javan Gulnaz T Javan 1
  • 1 Alabama State University, Montgomery, United States
  • 2 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States

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    Forensic entomotoxicology is an emerging field within forensic entomology that investigates the effects of chemicals, drugs, and toxins on insect development and their implications for postmortem interval (PMI) estimation. This systematic overview delves into the influence of drugs such as Morphine, heroin, Opiates, and cocaine on the variables affecting the use of forensically significant insects as evidence tools. Notably, it has been observed that the presence of drugs does not appear to alter the progression of the lifecycle from the first instar to the emergence of flies, indicating that PMI estimations based on fly emergence remain unaffected by

    Keywords: Entomotoxicology, PMI estimation, Xenobiotic drugs, substance abuse, Drug Overdose

    Received: 02 Apr 2024; Accepted: 17 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Jain, Parrott and Javan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Sapna Jain, Alabama State University, Montgomery, United States

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