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Overview

Richard Cronn is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research emphasizes various aspects of genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science with a focus on genetic diversity, environmental DNA, and forest and fish ecology.

Their recent publications cover a variety of topics in molecular and conservation genetics, including:

  • Estimating the genetic diversity of Pacific salmon and trout using multigene eDNA metabarcoding, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • An Axiom SNP genotyping array for Douglas-fir, 2020, BMC Genomics
  • Plastome Structural Evolution and Homoplastic Inversions in Neo-Astragalus (Fabaceae), 2021, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Predicting the geographic origin of Spanish Cedar (Cedrela odorata L.) based on DNA variation, 2020, Conservation Genetics
  • Creating, curating and evaluating a mitogenomic reference database to improve regional species identification using environmental DNA, 2023, Molecular Ecology Resources

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard Cronn include:

  • Brooke E. Penaluna
  • Laura Hauck
  • Kristen N. Finch
  • Kevin Weitemier
  • Tiffany S. Garcia

Richard Cronn has contributed publications to a range of scientific venues such as:

  • Molecular Ecology
  • BMC Genomics
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Journal of Biogeography

Their main fields of study focus on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Environmental Science. Within these domains, key subfields explored include Molecular Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Richard Cronn's primary research topics encompass:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Best Publications

  • Genes duplicated by polyploidy show unequal contributions to the transcriptome and organ-specific reciprocal silencing

    Keith L. Adams;Richard Clark Cronn;Ryan J. Percifield;Jonathan F. Wendel

  • Polyploidy and the Evolutionary History of Cotton

    Jonathan F. Wendel;Richard Clark Cronn

  • The tortoise and the hare: choosing between noncoding plastome and nuclear Adh sequences for phylogeny reconstruction in a recently diverged plant group

    Randall L. Small;Julie A. Ryburn;Richard C. Cronn;Tosak Seelanan

  • Navigating the tip of the genomic iceberg: Next-generation sequencing for plant systematics.

    Shannon C. K. Straub;Matthew Parks;Kevin Weitemier;Mark Fishbein

  • L. A. S. JOHNSON REVIEW No. 2 Use of nuclear genes for phylogeny reconstruction in plants

    Randall L. Small;Richard Clark Cronn;Jonathan F. Wendel

  • Increasing phylogenetic resolution at low taxonomic levels using massively parallel sequencing of chloroplast genomes

    Matthew Parks;Richard Cronn;Aaron Liston

  • Multiplex sequencing of plant chloroplast genomes using Solexa sequencing-by-synthesis technology

    Richard Cronn;Aaron Liston;Matthew M Parks;David S. Gernandt

  • Polyploid formation in cotton is not accompanied by rapid genomic changes

    B Liu;C L Brubaker;G Mergeai;R C Cronn

  • Hyb-Seq: Combining Target Enrichment and Genome Skimming for Plant Phylogenomics

    Kevin Weitemier;Shannon C. K. Straub;Richard C. Cronn;Mark Fishbein

  • Rate Variation Among Nuclear Genes and the Age of Polyploidy in Gossypium

    David S. Senchina;Ines Alvarez;Richard Clark Cronn;Bao Liu

  • Rapid diversification of the cotton genus (Gossypium: Malvaceae) revealed by analysis of sixteen nuclear and chloroplast genes.

    Richard C. Cronn;Randall L. Small;Tamara Haselkorn;Jonathan F. Wendel

  • PCR-mediated recombination in amplification products derived from polyploid cotton.

    Richard C. Cronn;M. Cedroni;T. Haselkorn;C. Grover

  • Polymorphism and concerted evolution in a tandemly repeated gene family: 5S ribosomal DNA in diploid and allopolyploid cottons

    Richard C. Cronn;Xinping Zhao;Andrew H. Paterson;Jonathan F. Wendel

  • Duplicated genes evolve independently after polyploid formation in cotton

    Richard C. Cronn;Randall L. Small;Jonathan F. Wendel

  • Targeted enrichment strategies for next-generation plant biology

    Richard Cronn;Brian J. Knaus;Aaron Liston;Peter J. Maughan

  • Fossil calibration of molecular divergence infers a moderate mutation rate and recent radiations for pinus.

    Ann Willyard;John Syring;David S. Gernandt;Aaron Liston

  • Fragaria: A genus with deep historical roots and ripe for evolutionary and ecological insights

    Aaron Liston;Richard Cronn;Tia-Lynn Ashman

  • Evolution and natural history of the cotton genus.

    Jonathan F. Wendel;Curt Brubaker;Ines Alvarez;Richard Cronn

  • Widespread genealogical nonmonophyly in species of Pinus subgenus Strobus

    John Syring;Kathleen Farrell;Roman Businský;Richard Cronn

  • Comparative development of fiber in wild and cultivated cotton.

    Wendy L. Applequist;Richard Cronn;Jonathan F. Wendel

Frequent Co-Authors

Aaron Liston
Aaron Liston Oregon State University
Jonathan F. Wendel
Jonathan F. Wendel Iowa State University
Jill L. Wegrzyn
Jill L. Wegrzyn University of Connecticut
Tia-Lynn Ashman
Tia-Lynn Ashman University of Pittsburgh
Bao Liu
Bao Liu Northeast Normal University
David B. Neale
David B. Neale University of California, Davis
Fengzhu Sun
Fengzhu Sun University of Southern California
Nahla V. Bassil
Nahla V. Bassil Agricultural Research Service
Andrew H. Paterson
Andrew H. Paterson University of Georgia
Joshua A. Udall
Joshua A. Udall Agricultural Research Service

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