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3128

Overview

Thomas W. Cronin is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Environmental Science and Neuroscience. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as Ecology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Molecular Biology.

Their scientific output covers a variety of topics including:

  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Crustacean Biology and Ecology
  • Fish Biology, Ecology, and Behavior
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Marine and Fisheries Research
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology

Several frequent co-authors appear in their body of work, indicating collaborative relationships with:

  • Rickesh N. Patel
  • Megan L. Porter
  • Chan Lin
  • Michael J. Bok
  • Alice Chou

Thomas W. Cronin's research has been published across a range of journals and platforms, with multiple papers appearing in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Arthropod Structure & Development

Representative recent papers include:

  • Mantis Shrimp Navigate Home Using Celestial and Idiothetic Path Integration, published in 2020 in Current Biology
  • Exceptional diversity of opsin expression patterns in Neogonodactylus oerstedii (Stomatopoda) retinas, published in 2020 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Path integration error and adaptable search behaviors in a mantis shrimp, published in 2020 in the Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Visual metamorphoses in insects and malacostracans: Transitions between an aquatic and terrestrial life, published in 2020 in Arthropod Structure & Development
  • Landmark navigation in a mantis shrimp, published in 2020 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

In addition to research articles, Thomas W. Cronin has contributed to book publications, with two editions of Color in Nature released in 2024 through Princeton University Press.

Best Publications

  • Statistics of cone responses to natural images: implications for visual coding

    Daniel L. Ruderman;Thomas W. Cronin;Chuan-Chin Chiao

  • Interspecific and intraspecific views of color signals in the strawberry poison frog Dendrobates pumilio.

    Afsheen Siddiqi;Thomas W. Cronin;Ellis R. Loew;Misha Vorobyev

  • Circular Polarization Vision in a Stomatopod Crustacean

    Tsyr Huei Chiou;Sonja Kleinlogel;Tom Cronin;Roy Caldwell

  • The UV visual world of fishes: a review

    G. S. Losey;T. W. Cronin;T. H. Goldsmith;D. Hyde

  • Visual mate choice in poison frogs.

    Kyle Summers;Kyle Summers;Rebecca Symula;Rebecca Symula;Mark E. Clough;Thomas Cronin

  • Shedding new light on opsin evolution

    Megan L. Porter;Joseph R. Blasic;Michael J. Bok;Evan G. Cameron

  • Polarization vision and its role in biological signaling

    Thomas W. Cronin;Nadav Shashar;Roy L. Caldwell;Justin Marshall

  • Melanopsin forms a functional short-wavelength photopigment.

    Lucy A. Newman;Marquis T. Walker;R. Lane Brown;Thomas W. Cronin

  • Polarization vision in cuttlefish in a concealed communication channel

    N. Shashar;P. S. Rutledge;T. W. Cronin

  • A retina with at least ten spectral types of photoreceptors in a mantis shrimp

    Thomas W. Cronin;N. Justin Marshall

  • The visual pigments of crabs. I: Spectral characteristics

    Thomas W. Cronin;Richard B. Forward

  • The eyes have it: regulatory and structural changes both underlie cichlid visual pigment diversity.

    Christopher M. Hofmann;Kelly E. O'Quin;N. Justin Marshall;Thomas W. Cronin

  • The Compound Eyes of Mantis Shrimps (Crustacea, Hoplocarida, Stomatopoda). I. Compound Eye Structure: The Detection of Polarized Light

    N. J. Marshall;Michael Francis Land;C. A. King;T. W. Cronin

  • Color signals in natural scenes: characteristics of reflectance spectra and effects of natural illuminants

    Chuan-Chin Chiao;Thomas W. Cronin;Daniel Osorio

  • Stomatopod eye structure and function: a review.

    Justin Marshall;Thomas W. Cronin;Sonja Kleinlogel

  • Photoreception and vision in the ultraviolet

    Thomas W. Cronin;Michael J. Bok

  • Mitochondrial DNA and Decapod Phylogenies: The Importance of 47 Pseudogenes and Primer Optimization

    Joel W. Martin;Keith A. Crandall;Darryl L. Felder

  • Tidal vertical migration: an endogenous rhythm in estuarine crab larvae.

    Thomas W. Cronin;Richard B. Forward

  • Control of diel vertical migration: Photoresponses of a larval crustacean†

    Richard B. Forward;Thomas W. Cronin;Donald E. Stearns

  • Spectral tuning of avian violet- and ultraviolet-sensitive visual pigments.

    Susan E. Wilkie;Phyllis R. Robinson;Thomas W. Cronin;Subathra Poopalasundaram

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy L. Caldwell
Roy L. Caldwell University of California, Berkeley
Matt O'Regan
Matt O'Regan Stockholm University
Martin Jakobsson
Martin Jakobsson Stockholm University
Theodore C. Moore
Theodore C. Moore University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kozo Takahashi
Kozo Takahashi Hokusei Gakuen University
Henk Brinkhuis
Henk Brinkhuis Utrecht University
Jens Matthiessen
Jens Matthiessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Heiko Pälike
Heiko Pälike University of Bremen
Michael A. Kaminski
Michael A. Kaminski King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Nadav Shashar
Nadav Shashar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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