Analysis of Nonhuman Forensic DNA Evidence

Catalog description

Nonhuman biological materials are so pervasive in the environment that they often contaminate victims, perpetrators and crime scenes by means of direct deposit or secondary transfer. As the reliability, sensitivity and specificity of animal, plant and microbial DNA assays improve with the advent of new technologies, the potential probative value of DNA information from nonhuman biomaterials also increases, especially for establishing or refuting alibis, determining the chronology of a criminal event and for crime scene reconstruction.