Oishik Kar

Molecular Identification of Forensically Significant Coffin Flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Eastern India Using COI Barcodes

Oishik Kar, Moubanti Das, Arka Mukherjee, Atanu Naskar & Dhriti Banerjee · Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology · 2025

Coffin flies (Diptera: Phoridae) are crucial to forensic studies because they can inhabit coffins or be found on buried corpses, thus aiding in determining the postmortem interval (PMI) and body relocation in criminal cases. But phorid flies are hard to identify because they are...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i103112

DNA Barcoding of Economically Important Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) from the Lower Gangetic Plains of Eastern India

Oishik Kar, Arka Mukherjee, Debjani Ghosh, Koustav Mukherjee, Debdeep Pramanik, Atanu Naskar & Dhriti Banerjee · Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology · 2024

The Lower Gangetic Plains are India's central horticultural crop production regions. Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) are a significant insect pest that significantly hinders the effective crop production of various commercially valuable fruit and vegetable crops. Therefore, ra...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i71020