Annette W. Coleman is a Stephen T. Olney Professor Emerita of Natural History at Brown University, where she is a faculty member in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry.
Her work examines "...the nature, quantity and mode of distribution of DNA genomes of mitochondria and plastids," as well as "...the species problem, how separate species evolve. The work examines particular species and genera of the volvocales, freshwater green algae, brown algae, and abalones, and the analysis includes mating compatibility, chromosome number, and DNA relatedness as determined by sequencing."
Coleman attended Barnard College, graduating with an A.B. in 1955, and earned her doctorate in plant science at Indiana University in 1958. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in natural sciences and plant sciences in 1983.
Coleman, A. W.; Goff, L. J.; Stein-Taylor, J. R. (1989), Algae as Experimental Systems, Wiley-Liss .
Coleman, A. W.; Proschold, T. (2005), "Control of sexual reproduction in algae in culture", in Andersen, R. A., Algal Culturing Techniques, Academic Press .
Goff, L. J.; Coleman, A. W. (1990), "DNA: Microspectroflurometric studies", in Cole, K. M.; Sheath, R. G., Biology of the Red Algae, Cambridge University Press .
Corriveau, Joseph L.; Coleman, Annette W. (1988), "Rapid screening method to detect potential biparental inheritance of plastid DNA and results for over 200 angiosperm species", American Journal of Botany, 75 (10): 1443–1458, JSTOR 2444695, doi:10.2307/2444695 .
Melaragno, J. E.; Mehrotra, B.; Coleman, A. W. (1993), "Relationship between endopolyploidy and cell size in epidermal tissue of Arabidopsis", The Plant Cell, 5 (11): 1661–1668, PMC 160394 , PMID 12271050, doi:10.1105/tpc.5.11.1661 .
Coleman, Annette W. (2003), "ITS2 is a double-edged tool for eukaryote evolutionary comparisons", Trends in Genetics, 19 (7): 370–375, PMID 12850441, doi:10.1016/S0168-9525(03)00118-5 .
