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Aphea.Bio
Aphea.Bio is a Belgian agricultural biotechnology company based in Ghent, founded in 2017 as a spin-off of VIB with Ghent University and KU Leuven, developing microbial biostimulants and biocontrol products.
Aphelenchoides besseyi
Aphelenchoides besseyi, the rice white-tip or rice leaf nematode (synonym A. oryzae), is a seed-borne foliar plant-parasitic nematode causing white tip disease of rice and summer crimp of strawberry, with yield losses up to 70% and quarantine status.
Aphelinidae
Aphelinidae (Thomson, 1876) is a family of minute chalcidoid parasitoid wasps, 37 genera and about 1,500 species, attacking aphids, scale insects, and whiteflies; known for heteronomous male development and major use in biological control, notably Encarsia formosa.
Aphelocoma
Aphelocoma, the scrub jays (genus Aphelocoma, Cabanis 1851), New World corvid jays of seven species including the Florida, Island, California, and Woodhouse's Scrub-Jays; classic cooperative-breeding study system with Miocene-Pliocene diversification.
Apheresis
Apheresis (from Greek aphairein, to remove) is an extracorporeal procedure separating blood into components, removing one, and returning the rest; used therapeutically (plasma exchange, red cell exchange, photopheresis) and for donor collection, governed by ASFA categories I-IV.
Aphex Twin
Aphex Twin is the main alias of Richard David James (born 1971, Limerick; raised in Cornwall), an electronic musician behind Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Drukqs, and Avril 14th, on Warp and R&S, also recording as AFX and Polygon Window.
Aphid
Aphids (plant lice, Aphidoidea) are small sap-sucking insects feeding on phloem via stylets, reproducing by live birth, hosting Buchnera symbionts, and including about 100 major crop pest species that transmit plant viruses.
Aphid natural enemies and biological control
Aphid natural enemies are the parasitoid wasps, predatory midges, hoverflies, and bugs that kill aphids; biological control is their deliberate use to keep aphids below damaging levels.
Aphidicolin
Aphidicolin is a tetracyclic diterpenoid antibiotic produced by the fungus Cephalosporium aphidicola that potently and specifically inhibits B-family DNA polymerases, halting DNA replication in eukaryotic cells.
Aphididae
Aphididae (aphids, plant lice) is the largest family of Aphidoidea, Hemiptera: about 5,100 phloem-feeding species with viviparous parthenogenetic females, Buchnera symbionts, honeydew, and major plant-virus vectoring.
Aphidiinae in aphid biological control
Aphidiinae, braconid koinobiont endoparasitoids of aphids, are primary biological control agents; Aphidius colemani is mass reared commercially and deployed via banker plant systems against greenhouse aphid pests.
Aphidna
Aphidna (Αφίδνα, Afidna) was one of the twelve ancient towns of Attica, a fortified deme on Kotroni hill near Marathon, with a Middle Bronze Age tumulus of 13 graves excavated by Sam Wide in 1894.
Aphilanthops
Aphilanthops (Patton, 1881) is a North American genus of four crabronid digger wasps in tribe Aphilanthopini that nest in soil and provision cells with ants, mainly winged Formica queens; hispidus also preys on bees.
Aphilas
Aphilas, also Aphilas Bisi Dimele, was a king of Aksum in the early 4th century AD, known chiefly from his coinage, including the only Aksumite fractional gold denominations.
Aphis
Aphis, described by Linnaeus in 1758, is the largest aphid genus, with an estimated 450 to 600 species including major agricultural pests like the cotton aphid.
Aphmau
Aphmau is the online alias of Jessica Bravura (born 1989, Houston, Texas), an American YouTuber and CatFace co-founder known for pioneering Minecraft roleplay videos, with over 20 million subscribers and a HarperPop graphic novel.
Aphonia
Aphonia is complete loss of voice, also called loss of voice or mutational voice loss, distinct from dysphonia. Causes include phonotrauma, muscle tension, and psychogenic conversion aphonia; treated mainly with voice therapy by speech-language pathologists.
Aphorism
Aphorism (Greek aphorismos, 'definition') is a concise statement of a general truth or principle, from Hippocrates' medical Aphorisms; distinct from proverbs, maxims, and epigrams by authorship and generality.
Aphotic zone
The aphotic zone is the part of the ocean below roughly 1,000 meters where sunlight does not penetrate, comprising the bathypelagic, abyssopelagic, and hadopelagic zones and lit only by bioluminescence.
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), English Restoration playwright, poet, spy for Charles II, and novelist; first professional woman writer in England; wrote The Rover and Oroonoko.
Aphrodisia (φροδίσια)
Aphrodisia (τὰ Ἀφροδίσια): festivals of Aphrodite celebrated across the Greek world, especially at Paphos in Cyprus, and also the ordinary Greek plural for sexual pleasures; attested by Xenophon, Athenaeus, Tacitus, and LSJ.
Aphrodisiac
An aphrodisiac, also called a prosexual agent, is a substance believed to increase sexual desire, arousal, or pleasure; the word derives from Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.
Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias: ancient Greco-Roman city in Caria, southwestern Turkey, named for Aphrodite, famed for its marble quarries, sculpture school, Sebasteion, Tetrapylon, and 270 m stadium; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2017.
Aphrodisias (coastal settlement in Rough Cilicia)
Aphrodisias in Cilicia (Aphrodite's port, Oppidum Veneris, Porto Cavaliere): ancient coastal settlement on the Zephyrium promontory, Ovacık Peninsula, Rough Cilicia, Turkey, with a double harbor and 2 km fortification walls; distinct from the Carian city Aphrodisias.
Aphrodision
Aphrodision (Ἀφροδίσιον) means a sanctuary of Aphrodite and names an unexcavated Hellenistic-to-Byzantine town on Cyprus's north coast near Akanthou, mentioned by Strabo and Ptolemy, distinct from Aphrodisias in Caria.
Aphrodite (Ἀφροδίτη)
Aphrodite (Ἀφροδίτη), Greek goddess of love, beauty, and procreation, Roman Venus; of Near Eastern origin via Cyprus and Astarte/Ishtar, daughter of Zeus and Dione or born from sea foam, worshipped at Cyprus, Cythera, and Corinth.
Aphrodite Gas Field
The Aphrodite Gas Field is a natural gas field in Block 12 of Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone, the first gas discovery in Cypriot waters, announced in 2011.
Aphrodite Golgia
Aphrodite Golgia (Γολγία ἡ Ἀφροδίτη), the Golgian Aphrodite, a Cypriot cult form of Aphrodite named for Golgoi, with her principal sanctuary at Arsos, attested by 3rd-century BC dedications and Theocritus.
Aphrodite of Knidos
Aphrodite of Knidos (Cnidian Aphrodite, Knidia): lost mid-4th-century BC marble cult statue of nude Aphrodite by Praxiteles, bought by Knidos over Kos, first monumental female nude, known from Roman copies.
Aphrodite sanctuary at Dafni
The Aphrodite sanctuary at Dafni (Ιερό Αφροδίτης στο Δαφνί) is an open-air sanctuary of Aphrodite on the Sacred Way between Athens and Eleusis, used from the classical to the Roman period.