{"id":2,"date":"2012-09-04T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:19:16","slug":"stmary-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stmary\/stmary-page\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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St. Mary<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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Colette M St. Mary
\nProfessor and Associate Chair<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Behavioral and evolutionary ecology; reproductive life history evolution (in particular, sex allocation and parental care); phenotypic plasticity; sexual selection; speciation; evolutionary aspects of cancer; marine fisheries management; reproduction and evolution in hatchery settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a nutshell:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am an evolutionary biologist; I seek to understand the forces of evolution, including the nature of selection, both natural and sexual, genetic drift, and mutation, including their consequences for phenotypic trait distributions. I typically focus on traits that contribute to reproductive life history, such as sex allocation, the size and number of offspring, and parental investment. However, I am also interested in aspects of phenotype that appear distinct from this, e.g., animal personality, domestication, and cancer incidence, although these too are actually strongly tied to life history. I primarily use fishes as my model organisms because of their great behavioral and reproductive diversity; however, I also collaborate on studies of other organisms. To accomplish my research goals I integrate field studies, laboratory experiments, and mathematical modeling approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Complete CV<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Office<\/em>: 610 Bartram Hall
\nFax<\/em>: (352) 392-3704
\nEmail<\/em>: stmary@ufl.edu<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mailing address<\/em>:
\nDepartment of Biology
\nUniversity of Florida
\n227 Bartram Hall
\nP.O. Box 118525
\nGainesville, FL 32611-7320.<\/h4>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/stmary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}