A group of researchers from the Department of Zoology and Animal Cell Biology at the UPV / EHU has turned fifteen years studying insects Ghouls settlers corpses, which has mapped with distribution by Euskadi, which helps clear cases of violent death or wildlife trafficking.
Researchers have analyzed the insect colonizers of cadavers and their respective timeframes. To catch them, they set traps with the corresponding “bait” for each type of insect you want to catch; for that feed on dead animals, for example, animal entrails are placed.
This equipment is the first of the Iberian Peninsula in closing the loop and calculate the time development of a ghoul insects of forensic interest.
The image of the forensic entomologist films or TV series CSI type does not correspond to the daily work of these professionals in the Basque Country, according to research Marta Saloña (UPV / EHU) .
“Our jobs are usually pretty routine. We investigated damage to structures, changes, security issues (there was one right here at the university, caused by insects), etc., “says the specialist.
also work to orders of the judicial authority , in cases of homicide, suicide, abuse, when so requested. In fact, the first case in which the team worked was a corpse that appeared in a forest.
“I read the news in the press, and sent a fax to court. I called the judge, and then the coroner. We started to work. It was wonderful, because he had spent years keeping the material, “he reported.
” The coroner knew it added something, but did not know why, and had to do autopsies. They were overworked. The information is not kept, it was not processed “recalls Saloña
The Department of Forensic Entomology UPV / EHU had to start virtually from scratch.” had been made previous work, there were only a few isolated data. There is very little studied, not only here in the Basque country, but throughout the peninsula. Continually we get surprises, and we find species not know if they are here, if they have come from outside, because there have been systematically recording the discovery s “.
It also highlights Saloña his team has been “ the first in the world to separate two species, so far, no one had been able to separate according to their genetic sequence. . I sincerely believe we have considerable merit for doing what we have done in these 15 years, with the means at our disposal, each researcher on campus “
Source: EFE
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