Thanatomicrobiome

Quick meaning: Thanatomicrobiome is a noun meaning (biology) The microbiome existing in a mammalian host after it dies.

Meaning

(biology) The microbiome existing in a mammalian host after it dies.

Example Sentences

What happens to these cells after human host death, defined here as the thanatomicrobiome (i.e., thanatos-, Greek defn., death), is not clear.

Future studies should collect data based on these variables to investigate the thanatomicrobiome of the decomposing tissue in addition to soil microbiome interactions.

Thanatomicrobiome studies suggest that microbial succession after death may have the potential to reveal important postmortem biomarkers for the identification of time 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).

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Related dictionary entries include necrobiome, microbiome, microbiota, metataxonomy, endomicrobiome, microbiomics.

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