Colette St. Mary

Colette Marie St. Mary is a professor and associate chair of the biology department at the University of Florida. Her research focuses include behavioral and evolutionary ecology, speciation, sexual selection, and evolutionary aspects of cancer. Working mainly with fish model organisms, St. Mary is also interested in marine fisheries management and reproduction and evolution in hatchery settings. St. Mary received her Bachelor's degree in Biology from Harvard Radcliffe College before earning her Ph.D from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994. She is the first African-American woman to ever receive a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology in the United States.[1] Her thesis was on the determinant of sex allocation patterns and maintenance of simultaneous hermaphroditism in the blue banded goby and zebra goby.[2]

  1. ^ R Shawn Abrahams (February 17, 2020). "The brief history of African Americans in Evolutionary Biology, and why that is the case". Molecular Ecologist. Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  2. ^ St. Mary, Colette; Marie, Colette (2020-06-07). "The determinants of sex allocation patterns and the maintenance of simultaneous hermaphroditism in the blue-banded goby (Lythrypnus dalli) and the zebra goby (Lythrypnus zebra) /". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)