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noun
The predictable, time-dependent succession of microbial communities during the postmortem decomposition of a body, used to estimate the postmortem interval.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: forensic science; forensic biology; forensic science; forensic biology
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History
Coined by the microbial ecologist and evolutionary biologist Jessica Metcalf c. 2010.
