microbial clock

microbial clock

English

Etymology

Coined by the microbial ecologist and evolutionary biologist Jessica Metcalf c. 2010.

Noun

microbial clock (plural microbial clocks)

  1. (forensic science, forensic biology) The predictable, time-dependent succession of microbial communities during the postmortem decomposition of a body, used to estimate the postmortem interval.

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