Background: The larvae of Lucilia sericata are efficiently and widely used in maggot therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate some environmental factors that influence the mass rearing of Lucilia sericata as the most suitable candidates for maggot therapy in Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in fli...

Forensic entomologists use size and developmental stage to estimate blow fly age, and from those, a postmortem interval. Since such estimates are generally accurate but often lack precision, particularly in the older developmental stages, alternative aging methods would be advantageous. Presented here is a means of incorporating developmentally regulated gene expression levels into traditional ...

BACKGROUND The green bottle fly maggot, Lucilia sericata, is a species with importance in medicine, agriculture and forensics. Improved understanding of this species' biology is of great potential benefit to many research communities. MicroRNAs (miRNA) are a short non-protein coding regulatory RNA, which directly regulate a host of protein coding genes at the translational level. They have been...

lucilia sericata larva is an obligatory parasite which causes myiasis in animals and rarely in humans as an ectoparasite.it belongs to the family of arthropoda and has many forms incuding egg,larva,nymph and adult.infestation in humans and sheep occursin wounds,mouth,ear,eye,and nose.infestation with this parasite causes itching,pain,inflammation,erythema,eosinophilia and secondary  bacterial i...

Preservation of viable tissue is important in wound management. It is achieved by small, incremental removal of devitalised, necrotic and infected tissues. Maggot debridement therapy (MDT) is used in septic necrotic wounds that fail to respond to conventional modalities. MDT has relied on Lucilia sericata, which consumes only necrotic tissues, as opposed to Lucilia cuprina, which devours both f...

Cilia are widely employed by living systems to manipulate fluid flow in various functions, such as feeding, pumping, and locomotion. Mimicking the intricate ciliary asymmetry combination with collective metachronal beating may find wide application transport mixing microfluidic systems. Here, we numerically analyze of pneumatic artificial cilia. We specifically address three aspects motion: (i)...

The oxidation of 3,5-di-tert.-butylphenyl N-methylcarbamate (Butacarb) has been studied in the flies Musca domestica and Lucilia sericata, grass grubs Costelytra zealandica and the mouse. In all species eleven oxidation products, which were formed by hydroxylation of the tert.-butyl groups and the N-methyl group, were detected.

This paper describes a sensitive UPLC-MS/MS method for quantification of methadone and 2-ethylidene-1,5-dimethyl-3,3-diphenylpyrrolidine (EDDP) in single empty puparial case of Lucilia sericata. Larvae were reared on substrates spiked with different concentrations of methadone (0-4 μg/g). Methadone was quantified in puparia reared on high concentrated substrates (0.8-4 μg/g). The major metaboli...

Two new species of the genus Vosmaeropsis are described: V. recruta sp. nov. and V. complanatispinifera sp. nov., both from the Brazilian coast. These species possess arrow-shaped large diactines in their skeletons, which are being described for the first time in Vosmaeropsis. In addition, the latter species presents another remarkable character: the apical actines of its atrial tetractines is ...

Cilia are organelles found on the surface of some cells in human body that sweep rhythmically to transport substances. Dysfunction ciliary motion is often indicative diseases known as ciliopathies, which disrupt functionality macroscopic structures within lungs, kidneys and other organs li2018composite. Phenotyping an essential step towards understanding ciliopathies; however, this generally ex...