Standing in Europe, you looked eastward toward the far-distant Orient (now called Asia, or East Asia if you want to exclude Russia).
In the future, analyses of finished genome assemblies in closely related species or analyses of structural variations within species with finished reference genomes will reveal whether our observation is due to rearrangements in extremely unstable regions or to genuine creation mechanisms of relatively distant and randomly oriented duplogs.
Pigeons have long served as a model for the study of avian navigation, and it is known that they can make use of some form of navigational map, probably based on atmospheric odours, combined with time-compensated solar compass information, in a two-step process, to orient homeward from distant unfamiliar places [ 1].
Like today's Jewish republic, the Crusader kingdoms were small states forged by military valor, based in the Middle East but oriented westward, with distant patrons and potential foes just next door.
In competing ligand gradients, cells expressing desensitizable receptors but not nondesensitizable receptors preferentially orient and migrate toward the distant ligand gradient.
If he is thought of at all, it is as a creaking reminder of distant colonial days - all those stories of the Orient, the smart ladies, the stiff upper lip.
When the regulatory elements in the loop are properly oriented, these insulator insulator pairing interactions can place distant enhancers/silencers in close proximity to target genes.
SHAPE A TERRACE -- Define the contours of an outdoor room -- from 200 to 300 square feet -- that will be protected by house walls and oriented to the sun, and to near and distant views.
This suggests that, compared with omnidirectional mode, when using the directional mode of their hearing aids, listeners took less time to orient to nearby targets, but more time to orient to more distant targets.
In the not-too-distant future, there will be screens with full haptic feedback that let you orient your hands on them.
Among birds, ravens and rooks have been shown to co-orient with conspecifics and with humans by following their gaze direction into distant space and behind visual screens.
