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Erica arborea
Erica arborea (tree heath, briar root), Ericaceae shrub or small tree native from the Mediterranean to tropical African mountains and Arabia; source of briar-root pipe wood, IUCN Least Concern.
Erica carnea
Erica carnea, known as winter heath or snow heath, is a low evergreen subshrub of central and southern European mountains that flowers pink, crimson, or white from January to April.
Erica cinerea
Erica cinerea, bell heather or twisted heath, is a western European Ericaceae subshrub of dry acidic heaths, whorled needle leaves, purple summer flowers, IUCN Least Concern, over 140 garden cultivars.
Erica E. Marsh
Erica E. Marsh is an American reproductive endocrinologist at the University of Michigan, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024 for fibroids research.
Erica gracilis
Erica gracilis, the slender heath or rose heath, is a South African flowering shrub in the heather family, native to the Cape Provinces and sold as a winter pot plant.
Erica N. Larschan
Erica Nicole Larschan is an American chromatin and gene-regulation biologist at Brown University, known for discovering the CLAMP protein, developing the MACC accessibility metric, and receiving a 2012 PECASE award.
Erica O. Saphire
Erica Ollmann Saphire is an American structural biologist who determines structures of Ebola and Lassa virus proteins and antibodies, and is President and CEO of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology.
Erica Spackman
Erica Spackman is a veterinary virologist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Athens, Georgia, who developed real-time PCR assays for detecting avian influenza and Newcastle disease.
Erica tetralix
Erica tetralix, cross-leaved heath, is a European Ericaceae subshrub of wet acidic heaths and bogs, with leaves in whorls of four and pale pink bell flowers, pH 4.0-5.0, 2n=24.
Ericaceae
Ericaceae, the heath family (Ericales), includes heathers, rhododendrons, and blueberries: about 125 genera and 4,200+ species, pore-dehiscing anthers, and obligate ericoid mycorrhiza in nutrient-poor soils.
Ericales
Ericales (Bercht. & J.Presl, 1820) is an asterid order of eudicot flowering plants with 22 families, 346 genera, and about 12,000 species, including tea, blueberry, persimmon, Brazil nut, and rhododendron; it diversified from about 110 Ma.
Ericameria nauseosa
Ericameria nauseosa, rubber rabbitbrush (formerly Chrysothamnus nauseosus), is a widespread western North American Asteraceae shrub with yellow fall flowers, two subspecies and 22 varieties, used for revegetation, wildlife browse, and rubber.
Erich A. Nigg
Erich A. Nigg (born 1952) is a Swiss cell biologist known for research on centrosomes and chromosome segregation, and director of the Biozentrum in Basel.
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis is an American neuroscientist at Rockefeller University who studies vocal learning in songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds and chairs the Vertebrate Genomes Project.
Erich E. Wanker
Erich E. Wanker, also known as Erich Wanker, is a professor of molecular medicine at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin who studies protein misfolding in neurodegenerative disease.
Erich Franz Eugen Bracht
Erich Franz Eugen Bracht (1882–1969) was a German pathologist and gynecologist remembered for the Bracht maneuver, a 1935 technique for vaginal breech delivery that cut fetal mortality.
Erich Grotewold
Erich Grotewold is an Argentine-trained plant molecular biologist at Michigan State University known for his work on how transcription factors control the flavonoid pigmentation pathways of maize.
Erich Gulbins
Erich Gulbins is a molecular biologist and professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen whose laboratory studies ceramide signaling in bacterial defense, cystic fibrosis, and cancer.
Erich Lexer
Erich Lexer (1867–1937) was a German surgeon who performed the first human whole-joint transplants, wrote standard works on transplantation, and is regarded as a father of plastic surgery.
Erich Rominger
Erich Rominger (1886–1967) was a German pediatrician and professor who held the pediatrics chair at Kiel from 1925 to 1954, researching rickets, anemia, and infant metabolism.
Erigeron
Erigeron (fleabane) is a cosmopolitan genus of daisy-like herbs in Asteraceae, tribe Astereae, published by Linnaeus in 1753, with 461 accepted species; Conyza is a disputed synonym, and species include E. annuus, E. canadensis, and E. karvinskianus.
Erignathus
Erignathus is a monotypic phocid seal genus, also called the bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus, Erxleben 1777). A large circumpolar Arctic, benthic suction-feeding, ice-associated seal, sister lineage to other phocines, IUCN Near Threatened.
Erigone (spider)
Erigone is a genus of dwarf sheet-web spiders (Linyphiidae, Erigoninae) erected by Audouin in 1826, type species E. longipalpis; includes the ballooning agricultural money spider E. atra.
Erik Acharius
Erik Acharius (1757–1819), Swedish physician and last pupil of Linnaeus, founder and "father of lichenology"; author of Methodus (1803), Lichenographia universalis (1810), and Synopsis methodica lichenum (1814), who created the first rational classification of lichens.
Erik Adolf von Willebrand
Erik Adolf von Willebrand (1870–1949) was a Finnish internist who in 1926 described an inherited bleeding disorder among Åland island families, now called von Willebrand disease.
Erik B. Bloss
Erik B. Bloss is an American neuroscientist studying how synaptic wiring among cortical and hippocampal cell types supports neural computation and behavior; he joined The Jackson Laboratory in Maine in 2019.
Erik Brodt
Erik Brodt is an Ojibwe family physician and health-equity researcher at OHSU who founded the Northwest Native American Center of Excellence and joined the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
Erik C. Böttger
Erik Christian Böttger, born 1956, is a German physician-scientist in medical microbiology, professor emeritus at the University of Zurich, known for describing Mycobacterium genavense in AIDS patients in 1992.
Erik De Clercq
Erik De Clercq is a Belgian physician-scientist, born in 1941, who spent his career at KU Leuven's Rega Institute developing antiviral drugs including tenofovir and brivudine.
Erik Godtfredsen
Erik Godtfredsen (1913–1993) was a Danish ophthalmologist at Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, whose 454-case study of malignant nasopharyngeal tumors identified the combined sixth and twelfth cranial nerve palsy known as Godtfredsen syndrome.