Chercheurs

Sciences de la Vie / CRONIN, THOMAS W.

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Position

Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA.

Thèmes de recherche

Professor Cronin studies visual physiology of invertebrates, especially of marine and estuarine crustaceans. Most of my recent work has been with the mantis shrimps, or stomatopods, a unique group of tropical crustaceans that have extremely complicated behavior and perhaps the most unusual eyes ever evolved. He is working with their color vision systems (they have up to 11 color channels), their photic environments, their systems of color communication, the dynamics of their photoreceptor cells, and their ocular movements and control systems. He is also concerned with how other marine animals have evolved visual systems specialized for their environmental and ecological requirements.

Prix et récompenses

Publications

C.C. Chiao, T.W. Cronin, and D. Osorio. 2000. Color signals in natural scenes: characteristics of reflectance spectra and effects of natural illuminants. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 17:218-224.

T.W. Cronin, M. Jarvilehto, M. Weckstrom, and A.B. Lall. 2000. Tuning of photoreceptor spectral sensitivity in fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). J. Comp. Physiol. A. 186:1-12.

G.S. Losey, T.W. Cronin, T.H. Goldsmith, D. Hyde, N.J. Marshall, and W.N. McFarland. 1999. The UV visual world of fishes: a review. J. Fish Biology 54:921-943.

N.J. Marshall, T.W. Cronin, and N. Shashar. 1999. Behavioural evidence for polarisation vision in stomatopods reveals a potential channel for communication. Current Biology 9:755- 758.

K. Summers, R. Symula, M. Clough, and T.W. Cronin. 1999. Visual mate choice in poison frogs. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 266:2141-2145.

P.A. Jutte, T.W. Cronin, and R.L. Caldwell. 1998. Vision in two sympatric species of Pullosquilla (Stomatopoda, Lysiosquilloidea) living in different depth ranges. Mar. Freshwater Behav. Physiol. 31:231-250.