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      Postmortem Skeletal Microbial Community Composition and Function in Buried Human Remains
    
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    Improving Estimates of the Postmortem Interval with Metagenomics and Metabolomics
    
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    Microbial Clocks for Estimating the Postmortem Interval of Human Remains at Three Anthropological Research Facilities
    
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    Evaluating the Skin Microbiome as Trace Evidence
    
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    Microbial Community Assembly and Metabolic Function During Mammalian Corpse Decomposition
    
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    Vertebrate Decomposition is Accelerated by Soil Microbes
    
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    Characterization of Bacterial and Microbial Eukaryotic Communities (including Fungal) Associated with Corpse Decomposition Using Next Generation Sequencing
    
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    A microbial clock provides an accurate estimate of the postmortem interval in a mouse model system
    
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    Developing a High Throughput Protocol for Using Soil Molecular Biology as Trace Evidence
    
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