Sarcophaga peregrina is an important flesh fly species for estimating the minimum postmortem interval (PMImin) in forensic entomology. The accurate determination of the developmental age is a crucial task for using necrophagous sarcophagids to estimate PMImin. During larval development, the age determination is straight forward by the morphological changes and variation of length, weight, and width; however, the age estimation of sarcophagid intrapuparial is more difficult due to anatomical and morphological changes not being visible. The analysis of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) during sarcophagid metamorphosis is a potential method for age estimation of intrapuparial. In the present study, real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was used to analyze the differential gene expression level of S. peregrina intrapuparial in different constant temperatures (35°C, 25°C, and 15°C). In addition, the appropriate reference genes of S. peregrina were selected in the intrapuparial and at different temperatures to obtain reliable and valid gene expression profiles. The results indicated that two candidate genes (18S rRNA and 28S rRNA) were the most reliable reference genes, and four DEGs (Hsp90, A-alpha, AFP, AFBP) have the potential to be used to more accuracy estimate the age of S. peregrina intrapuparial.
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5 September 2019
Differential Gene Expression for Age Estimation of Forensically Important Sarcophaga peregrina (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) Intrapuparial
Yanjie Shang,
Lipin Ren,
Li Yang,
Shiwen Wang,
Wei Chen,
Jianan Dong,
Hongming Ma,
Xuan Qi,
Yadong Guo
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Journal of Medical Entomology
Vol. 57 • No. 1
January 2020
Vol. 57 • No. 1
January 2020
differentially expressed gene
forensic entomology
postmortem interval
RT-qPCR
Sarcophaga peregrina