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UMBC Biological Sciences
Thomas Cronin
Contact Information
Office: BS 472
Phone: 410-455-3449
Thomas Cronin
Professor
Postdoctoral, Yale University, 1983; PhD, Duke University, 1979; MS, Duke University, 1969; SciB, Dickinson College, 1967
Selected publications

T.W. Cronin. 2008. Visual ecology.  In: The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference.  Vision I, Volume 1 (eds. R. Masland and T.D. Albright).  Academic Press, San Diego.  pp. 211-246.

T.-H. Chiou, S. Kleinlogel, T.W. Cronin, R.L. Calwell, B. Lofle, A. Siddiqi, A. Goldizen and J. Marshall.  2008.  Circular polarisation vision in a stomatopod crustacean.  Current  Biology 18:429-434.

T.-H. Chiou, L.M. Mathger, R.T. Hanlon, and T.W. Cronin. 2007.  Spectral and spatial  properties of polarized light reflections from the arms of squid  (Loligo pealeii) and cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis L.).  Journal of Experimental Biology  210:3624-3635.
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J.M. Douglas, T.W. Cronin, Tsyr-Huei Chiou, and Nathaniel J. Dominy.  2007. Light habitats and the role of polarized iridescence in the sensory ecology of Neotropical nymphalid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).  Journal of Experimental Biology 210: 788-799.
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J.M. Jordão, T.W. Cronin, and R.F. Oliveira. 2007. Spectral sensitivity of four species of fiddler crabs (Uca pugnax, Uca pugilator, Uca vomeris and Uca tangeri) measured by in situ microspectrophotometry. Journal of Experimental Biology 210:447-453.
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C.M. Hofmann, T.W. Cronin, and K.E. Omland. 2006. Using spectral data to reconstruct evolutionary changes in coloration: carotenoid color evolution in New World orioles. Evolution 60:1680-1691.

T.W. Cronin.  2006.  Invertebrate vision in water.  In:  Invertebrate Vision (E. Warrant and D.E. Nilsson, eds).  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, pp. 211-249.

T.W. Cronin, E.J. Warrant, and B. Greiner.  2006.  Celestial polarization patterns during twilight. Applied Optics 45:5582-5589.
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A.G. Cheroske and T. W. Cronin. 2005. Variation in stomatopod (Gonodactylus smithii) color signal design associated with organismal condition and depth. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 66:99-113.
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T.W. Cronin, M.R. Kinloch, and G.H. Olsen. 2005.  Head-bobbing behavior in foraging whooping cranes favors visual fixation. Current Biology 15:R243-R244.
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A. Siddiqi, T.W. Cronin, E.R. Loew, M. Vorobyev, and K. Summers.  2004.  Interspecific and intraspecific views of color signals in the strawberry poison frog, Dendrobates pumilio.  J. Exp. Biol. 207:2471-2485.
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C.H. Mazel, T.W. Cronin, R.L. Caldwell, and J. Marshall.  2004. Fluorescent enhancement of signaling in a mantis shrimp.  Science 303:51.
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