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Necrophage — Wikipedia (en)

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Necrophages (also known as carrion feeders) are animals that feed on decomposing dead animal biomass, such as the muscle and soft tissue of carcasses or corpses. The term derives from Greek nekros, meaning 'dead', and phagein, meaning 'to eat'. Many hundreds of necrophagous species have been identified including invertebrates in the insect, malacostracan and gastropod classes and vertebrates such as vultures, hyenas, quolls and wolves. Necrophagous insects are important in forensic science as the presence of some species (e.g. Calliphora vomitoria) in a body, coupled with information on their development stage (e.g. egg, larva, pupa), can yield information on time of death. Information on the insect species present can also be used as evidence that a body has been moved, and analysis of insect tissue can be used as evidence that drugs or other substances were in the body. Necrophages are useful for other purposes too. In healthcare, green bottle fly larvae are sometimes used to remove necrotic (dead) tissue from non-healing wounds, and in waste management, black soldier fly larvae are used to convert decomposing organic waste into animal feed. Biotechnological applications for necrophage-derived genes, molecules and microbes are also being explored.

Tema degli esploratori: scienze della vita e salute (deposito sistematico; categoria «Ecology»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Necrophage» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophage
Wikidata Q25524623 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25524623
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophage?action=history).
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