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Education

Univeristy of Washington, Ph.D., 1966
Oberlin College, M.A., 1949
Drew University, B.A., 1947

Research Interests

Systematics and development of marine sipunculan worms
Development and larval biology of marine invertebrates, worldwide

Professional Activities

Member and past president (1979) of the American Society of Zoologists/Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology

Member and past president (1999) of The American Microscopical Society

Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Recent Publications

Young, Craig M., Emson, Roland H., Rice, Mary E. and Tyler, Paul A. 2013. A paradoxical mismatch of fecundity and recruitment in deep-sea opportunists: Cocculinid and pseudococculinid limpets colonizing vascular plant remains on the Bahamian Slope, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography,

Rice, Mary E., Reichardt, Hugh F., Piraino, Julianne and Young, Craig M. 2012. Reproduction, development, growth, and the length of larval life of Phascolosoma turnerae, a wood-dwelling deep-sea sipunculan, Invertebrate Biology, 131(3):204-215

Young, Craig M., He, Ruoying, Emlet, Richard B., Li, Yizhen, Qian, Hui, Arellano, Shawn M., Van Gaest, Ahna, Bennett, Kathleen C., Wolf, Maya, Smart, Tracey I. and Rice, Mary E. 2012. Dispersal of Deep-Sea Larvae from the Intra-American Seas: Simulations of Trajectories Using Ocean Models, Integrative and Comparative Biology, 52(4):483-496

Schulze, Anja, Maiorova, Anastassya, Timm, Laura E. and Rice, Mary E. 2012. Sipunculan Larvae and "Cosmopolitan" Species, Integrative and Comparative Biology, 52(4):497-510

Schulze, Anya and Rice, Mary E. 2009. Nephasoma pellucidum - A Model for Sipunculan Development?, Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, (38):209-217

Kawauchi, Gisele Y. and Rice, Mary E. 2009. Two New Species of Nephasoma (Sipuncula: Golfingiidae) from the Western Atlantic Ocean, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 122(1):1-13

Rice, Mary E. 2009. "Sipuncula of the Gulf of Mexico". Pp. 803-808 in Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters and Biota Vol. 1, Biodiversity (Felder, Darryl L. and Camp, David K.). Texas A&M University Press

Schulze, Anja and Rice, Mary E. 2009. Musculature in sipunculan worms: ontogeny and ancestral states, Evolution & development, 11(1):97-108

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