‘Un-Central’ Landscapes of NE-Africa and W-Asia—Landscape Archaeology as a Tool for Socio-Economic History in Arid Landscapes by Anna-Katharina Rieger

“…Arid regions in the Old World Dry Belt are assumed to be marginal regions, not only in ecological terms, but also economically and socially. …”
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Suppression and resolution of autoimmune arthritis by rhesus θ-defensin-1, an immunomodulatory macrocyclic peptide. by Justin B Schaal, Dat Q Tran, Akshay Subramanian, Reshma Patel, Teresina Laragione, Kevin D Roberts, Katie Trinh, Prasad Tongaonkar, Patti A Tran, Dmitriy Minond, Gregg B Fields, Paul Beringer, André J Ouellette, Percio S Gulko, Michael E Selsted

“…θ-defensins constitute a family of macrocyclic peptides expressed exclusively in Old World monkeys. The peptides are pleiotropic effectors of innate immunity, possessing broad spectrum antimicrobial activities and immunoregulatory properties. …”
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Making the Past Audible: The Childlike Element and Renewal of Existence in Benjamin and Woolf by Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio

“…This paper reads Virginia Woolf’s writing through Walter Benjamin’s thinking of “the childlike element” as a paradigm of renewal, whereby, through the prism of memory, the recall of a remainder sealed in the old world will reignite the promise of hope crystallized in childhood. …”
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Linguaculturological Features of the Images of the Celestial World in the Russian Poetry of the 1990’s by S. S. Dutbayeva

“…In the 1990’s, mankind was repeating the stage it had passed in the early XX century, when cherry orchards gave place to railways, and the old world order was coming to an end. In such periods, people do not look at the sky for solace; they mind their own step and see heaven reflected in the rails. …”
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Transcriptomic resources for Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister), a widespread invasive pest of Brassicales. by Michael E Sparks, David R Nelson, Robert L Harrison, Nicholas R Larson, Daniel Kuhar, Ariela I Haber, Sam D Heraghty, Zarley Rebholz, Dorothea Tholl, Ian M Grettenberger, Donald C Weber, Dawn E Gundersen-Rindal

“…The bagrada bug, Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister), is an emerging agricultural pest in the Americas, threatening agricultural production in the southwestern United States, Mexico and Chile, as well as in the Old World (including Africa, South Asia and, more recently, Mediterranean areas of Europe). …”
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Evolution of fruit traits in ficus subgenus Sycomorus (Moraceae): to what extent do frugivores determine seed dispersal mode? by Rhett D Harrison, Nina Rønsted, Lei Xu, Jean-Yves Rasplus, Astrid Cruaud

“…Focusing on Ficus subgenus Sycomorus, a phenotypically diverse and ecologically important Old World lineage, we examined the evolution of fruit traits using a molecular phylogeny constructed using 5 kilobases of DNA sequence data from 63 species (50% of global diversity). …”
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Recurrent loss of HMGCS2 shows that ketogenesis is not essential for the evolution of large mammalian brains by David Jebb, Michael Hiller

“…Unexpectedly, we found that three mammalian lineages, comprising cetaceans (dolphins and whales), elephants and mastodons, and Old World fruit bats have lost this gene. Remarkably, many of these species have exceptionally large brains and signs of intelligent behavior. …”
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Suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 counteracts rhesus macaque TRIM5α-induced inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 production. by Sayaka Sukegawa, Ryuta Sakuma, Seiga Ohmine, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Shoji Yamaoka

“…Old world monkey TRIM5α is a host factor that restricts human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) infection. …”
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Death and resurrection of the human IRGM gene. by Cemalettin Bekpen, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Can Alkan, Francesca Antonacci, Maria Bruna Leogrande, Mario Ventura, Jeffrey M Kidd, Priscillia Siswara, Jonathan C Howard, Evan E Eichler

“…Comparative sequence analysis of New World and Old World monkey species shows that the single-copy IRGM gene became pseudogenized as a result of an Alu retrotransposition event in the anthropoid common ancestor that disrupted the open reading frame (ORF). …”
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Executive decision-making in the domestic sheep. by A Jennifer Morton, Laura Avanzo

“…Two new large animal models of Huntington's disease (HD) have been developed recently, an old world monkey (macaque) and a sheep. Macaques, with their large brains and complex repertoire of behaviors are the 'gold-standard' laboratory animals for testing cognitive function, but there are many practical and ethical issues that must be resolved before HD macaques can be used for pre-clinical research. …”
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EFFECT OF REPEATED INFESTATION OF CHRYSOMYIA BEZZIANA ON WEIGHT OF ITS LARVAE by S. Baidya, M.K. Das, M.K. Biswas, S. Pradhan, M.R. Panda

“…There are about 20 species of obligate and 50 species of facultative myiasis producing flies found in India. Out of these, the Old World screwworm fly Chrysomyia bezziana is the most important obligate myiasis-causing fly. …”
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Molecular and morphological phylogeny of the parasitic wasp genus Yelicones (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) by Buntika AREEKUL, Miharu MORI, Alejandro ZALDIVAR-RIVERÓN, Donald L.J. QUICKE

“…The results support a morphology-based phylogeny, presented elsewhere, with Yelicones being divided into two major groups corresponding to the New and Old World faunas. The African and Asian species largely form separate clades except for Yelicones wui Chen & He from China which is associated with the Afrotropical species. …”
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Habitat productivity predicts the global distribution of social spiders by Marija eMajer, Jens-Christian eSvenning, Trine eBilde

“…We found strong support for habitat productivity as a predictor of the distribution of social species, particularly in the Old World. We show that social species are restricted to more productive habitats relative to a set of closely related subsocial sister species with a solitary lifestyle. …”
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Winemaking and bioprocesses strongly shaped the genetic diversity of the ubiquitous yeast Torulaspora delbrueckii. by Warren Albertin, Laura Chasseriaud, Guillaume Comte, Aurélie Panfili, Adline Delcamp, Franck Salin, Philippe Marullo, Marina Bely

“…Microsatellite analysis showed four genetic clusters: two groups contained most nature strains from Old World and Americas respectively, and two clusters were associated with winemaking and other bioprocesses. …”
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The evolution of the multicoloured face of mandrills: insights from the perceptual space of colour vision. by Julien P Renoult, H Martin Schaefer, Bettina Sallé, Marie J E Charpentier

“…Here, we study the design of the multicoloured face of an Old World primate, the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx), in relation to two aspects of signalling that are expected to be selected by receivers: conspicuousness and information. …”
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Phylogeny of locusts and grasshoppers reveals complex evolution of density-dependent phenotypic plasticity by Hojun Song, Bert Foquet, Ricardo Mariño-Pérez, Derek A. Woller

“…We find that the desert locust, S. gregaria, which is the only Old World representative of the genus, is the earliest diverging lineage. …”
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Evolution, systematics, and phylogeography of pleistocene horses in the new world: a molecular perspective. by Jaco Weinstock, Eske Willerslev, Andrei Sher, Wenfei Tong, Simon Y W Ho, Dan Rubenstein, John Storer, James Burns, Larry Martin, Claudio Bravi, Alfredo Prieto, Duane Froese, Eric Scott, Lai Xulong, Alan Cooper

“…Furthermore, we show that stilt-legged horses, commonly regarded as Old World migrants related to the hemionid asses of Asia, were in fact an endemic North American lineage. …”
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Investigations at Tal-i Iblis : evidence for copper smelting during the Chalcolithic period by Frame, Lesley (Leslie Diana)

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Does Retinotopy Influence Cortical Folding in Primate Visual Cortex? by Rajimehr, Reza, Tootell, Roger B. H.

“…In humans and other Old World primates, much of visual cortex comprises a set of retinotopic maps, embedded in a cortical sheet with well known, identifiable folding patterns. …”
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Functional and structural characterization of Flaviviral NS5 replication machinery : study of Powassan virus NS5 a tick-borne virus by Chang, Melissa Hui Min

“…Powassan virus (POWV) is a re-emerging old world flavivirus that is well understudied despite being genetically sequenced three decades ago. …”
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