Soil Fungal Communities Investigated by Metabarcoding Within Simulated Forensic Burial Contexts.

ABSTRACT: Decomposition of animal bodies in the burial environment plays a key role in the biochemistry of the soil, altering the balance of the local microbial populations present before the introduction of the carcass. Despite the growing number of studies on decomposition and soil bacterial populations, less is known on its effects on fungal communities. Shifts in the fungal populations at different post-mortem intervals (PMIs) could provide insights for PMI estimation and clarify the role that specific fungal taxa have at specific decomposition stages. In this study, we buried pig carcasses over a period of 1- to 6-months, and we sampled the soil in contact with each carcass at different PMIs. We performed metabarcoding analysis of the mycobiome targeting both the internal transcribed spacer (IT

SUBMITTER: Procopio N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7393272 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature