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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