Tereza Oleksakova

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague | CULS · Department of Zoology and Fisheries

Several methods of DNA extraction, coupled with ‘DNA barcoding’ species identification, were compared using specimens from early developmental stages of forensically important flies from the Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae families. DNA was extracted at three immature stages – eggs, the first instar larvae, and empty pupal cases (puparia) – using f...

Applied research method is a combination of search retrieval and empirical part based on observing two experiments carried out between 2011 and 2012 and between 2012 and 2013. In all experiments model carcasses of pigs Sus scrofa f. domestica Linnaeus, 1758 were used. Pig carcasses meant to imitate the real crime scenes, substituting human corpses....

In years 2011 to 2015, three field experiments were performed in the capital city of Prague to study decomposition and insect colonization of large cadavers in conditions of the Central Europe. Experiments in turns followed decomposition in outdoor environments with the beginning in spring, summer and winter. As the test objects a cadaver of domest...

Forensic entomology is the science discipline, that uses knowledge of the laws of development of insects to solve forensic cases. With the help of this knowledge we can determine individuals time of death-the post mortem interval (PMI). Using knowledge of the length of the development of individual representatives of insects who are found on the co...

Research method applied in the thesis is a combination of search retrieval and empirical part based on two experiments located in Prague between years 2011 and 2013. In both experiments model carcasses of pigs (Sus scrofa f. domestica Linnaeus, 1758) were used. Dead pigs meant to imitate the real crime scenes, substituting human corpses. Samples we...