MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF FORENSICALLY RELEVANT DIPTERA: MISSED IMPORTANT CRITERIA

Sanaa Mohamed Aly; Shereen Mohamed Mahmoud

Volume : V, Issue : V, May - 2016

MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF FORENSICALLY RELEVANT DIPTERA: MISSED IMPORTANT CRITERIA

Sanaa Mohamed Aly, Shereen Mohamed Mahmoud

Abstract :

Molecular identification of forensically relevant Diptera is a valuable tool in forensic entomology. Many contemporary studies have been evaluated the discrimination between closely related species based on different cytochrome oxidase I gene (COI) fragments. One of those recently tested markers is 278–bp COI gene which has been proven its success in discrimination between closely related species belonging to one family. To make a thorough investigation to any molecular marker, we need to evaluate its discrimination power not only between closely related species but also between species from different families. Therefore, we herein assessed the utility of that marker in identification of 15 species of 3 families. The results of present investigation revealed odd relationship and distribution of some tested species in phylogenetic tree. These results confirmed that the inclusion of species from different families �ignored criteria� on the same level of importance as inclusion of closely related species.