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Gut content extraction

Physical dissection of a larva to remove the crop and midgut contents, which are then extracted separately from the larval carcass. The aim is to recover human DNA from the partially digested tissue in the gut without being overwhelmed by the vastly more abundant insect genomic DNA.

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