Phycomycetes, an obsolete name formerly used to describe lower fungi in the classes Chytridiomycetes, Hyphochytridiomycetes, Plasmodiophoromycetes, Oomycetes, Zygomycetes, and Trichomycetes.
An old (obsolete) name for a variety of zircon containing unusually high Hf content is alvite.
In many published case reports, etiologic agents were referred to as Phialophora pedrosoi or identified with the obsolete name F. compacta, now known to be a mutant F. pedrosoi (9, 13, 16 ).
The prevalence of European names (and earlier European names) for islands rather than current (and previous) local/vernacular names is a weakness of the Motteler list (2006); one source that was especially useful in rectifying this was Langdon (1978) who gives two gazetteers of equivalent and obsolete names for many islands.
"Holm thrush", "hollin cock" and "holm cock" are based on obsolete names for the holly tree, which may be defended by the thrush in winter for its berries.
Other dialectal or obsolete names include caddesse, cawdaw, caddy, chauk, college-bird, jackerdaw, jacko, ka-wattie, chimney-sweep bird (from their nesting propensities), and sea-crow (from the frequency with which they are found on coasts).
Most counties do want to get obsolete names off of their voter rolls, but claim they don't have the resources necessary to launch a full review, and often can't get funding or support from state legislatures.
Keyword search to retrieve publications relevant to particular miRNAs faces three obstacles: (i) publications may refer to the same miRNA using different names, (ii) publications may refer to miRNAs with old, obsolete names and (iii) results retrieved as relevant should be carefully examined, since, e.g. sequence changes might have happened in referenced miRNAs, after the publication date.
Although this change is recorded in WormBase (Figure S1), the obsolete gene name C03B8.1 does figure in older publications.
Moreover, if an obsolete gene name was reused for a new gene by other researchers, it might lead to confusion.
He added that the use of obsolete street names with such a powerful resonance, and no relevance to the current situation in Birmingham, disturbs people.
