Abstract
Soil is a remarkably complex, diverse, ubiquitous, and easily transferred material which can reveal highly useful information to assist forensic investigations. In spite of its potential usefulness, the use of genetic soil analysis appears to be currently underestimated in forensic practice. Herein we report on the use of single arbitrarily primed amplification followed by high throughput sequencing of DNA fragments for the comparison of soil samples. The composition and functional attributes of soil microbial communities from three different locations were compared and shown to be different based on the metagenomic sequencing data obtained.
Original language | English |
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Pages | e39-e40 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 28 Oct 2013 |
Event | 25th World Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 2 Sep 2013 → 7 Sep 2013 Conference number: 25 |
Conference
Conference | 25th World Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics |
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Abbreviated title | ISFG 2013 |
Country/Territory | Australia |
City | Melbourne |
Period | 2/09/13 → 7/09/13 |
Keywords
- Arbitrarily primed PCR
- Forensic soil analysis
- High throughput sequencing
- Soil metagenomics