English Explanatory Dictionary

microbial clock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The predictable, time-dependent succession of microbial communities during the postmortem decomposition of a body, used to estimate the postmortem interval.

Word forms

microbial clock microbial clocks

Etymology

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

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