Thanatomicrobiome
Origin
- + thanato + microbiome
Full definition of thanatomicrobiome
Noun
thanatomicrobiome
(uncountable)- (biology) The microbiome existing in a mammalian host after it dies.
- 1 August 2014, Ismail Can, Gulnaz T. Javan, Alexander E. Pozhitkov, Peter A. Noble, Distinctive thanatomicrobiome signatures found in the blood and internal organs of humans, What happens to these cells after human host death, defined here as the thanatomicrobiome (i.e., thanatos-, Greek defn., death), is not clear.
- 2015, K A Perrault, T Rai, B H Stuart, S L Forbes, Seasonal comparison of carrion volatiles in decomposition soil using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography–time of flight mass spectrometry, Future studies should collect data based on these variables to investigate the thanatomicrobiome of the decomposing tissue in addition to soil microbiome interactions.
- February 24,2016, Gulnaz T. Javan, Sheree J. Finley, Zain Abidin, Jennifer G. Mulle, The Thanatomicrobiome: A Missing Piece of the Microbial Puzzle of Death, There is currently a paucity of explorations of the thanatomicrobiome (thanatos-, Greek for death) and epinecrotic communities (microbial communities residing in and/or moving on the surface of decomposing remains).
- May 10, 2018, Courtnee Bell, Jeremy Wilkinson, BK Robertson, Gulnaz T. Javan, Sex-related differences in the thanatomicrobiome in postmortem heart samples using bacterial gene regions V1-2 and V4, Thanatomicrobiome studies suggest that microbial succession after death may have the potential to reveal important postmortem biomarkers for the identification of time of death.