The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean.

Jan Backman, Henk Brinkhuis, Steven C Clemens, Thomas Cronin, Gerald R Dickens, Frédérique Eynaud, Jérôme Gattacceca, Martin Jakobsson, Richard W Jordan, Michael Kaminski, John King, Nalan ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/publications/16738653

Celestial polarization patterns during twilight.

Scattering of sunlight produces patterns of partially linearly polarized light in the sky throughout the day, and similar patterns appear at night when ... Thomas W Cronin, Eric J Warrant, Birgit Greiner ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/publications/16855654

Transmission of linearly polarized light in seawater: implications for polarization signaling.

Partially linearly polarized light is abundant in the oceans. The natural light field is partially polarized throughout the photic range, and some objects ... Nadav Shashar, Shai Sabbah, Thomas W Cronin ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/publications/15339957

Evidence for a rhodopsin-retinochrome photosensitive system in chromatophores of the squid, Loligo pealeii

Cephalopods, including squid, cuttlefish, and octopus, are hypothesized to have extraocular photoreceptors located in ... Alexandra Kingston, George Bell, Alan M Kuzirian, Roger T Hanlon, Thomas W Cronin ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00169/event_abstract?sname=Tenth_International_Congress_of_Neuroethology_1

The Structure and Function of Stomatopod Larval Eyeshine

As a means of disguising themselves from visual predators in the pelagic environment, stomatopod larvae are almost entirely transparent. The only opaque ... Kathryn Deborah Feller, Thomas W. Cronin ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00152/event_abstract?sname=Tenth_International_Congress_of_Neuroethology_1

Spectral Tuning to Heterogeneous Backgrounds: Distribution of Double Cone Opsins within the Retina of a Lake Malawi Cichlid

Detection of predators is a critical task that many animals accomplish visually. Because predators often appear as dark objects, their detection ... Brian Edward Dalton, Thomas W. Cronin, Karen L Carleton ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00307/event_abstract?sname=Tenth_International_Congress_of_Neuroethology_1

The basis of polychromatic ultraviolet vision in mantis shrimp

Stomatopod crustaceans, or mantis shrimp, possess some of the most notable visual systems known to biology. Their visual ecology has been ... Michael John Bok, Megan L. Porter, Thomas W. Cronin ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00373/event_abstract?sname=Tenth_International_Congress_of_Neuroethology_1

Melanopsin forms a functional short-wavelength photopigment.

Recently, melanopsin has emerged as the leading candidate for the elusive photopigment of the mammalian circadian ... Lucy A Newman, Marquis T Walker, R Lane Brown, Thomas W Cronin, Phyllis R Robinson ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/publications/14596587

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

Poison frogs in the anuran family Dendrobatidae use bright colors on their bodies to advertise toxicity. The species ... Afsheen Siddiqi, Thomas W Cronin, Ellis R Loew, Misha Vorobyev, Kyle Summers ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/publications/15184519

Visual pigment absorbance and spectral sensitivity of the Mysis relicta species group (Crustacea, Mysida) in different light environments.

Visual-pigment absorbance spectra and eye spectral sensitivities were examined in eight populations ... Magnus Lindström, Pavel P Zak, Megan Porter, Mikhail A Ostrovsky, Thomas W Cronin, Kristian Donner ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/publications/16133501

Extraocular photoreception in the skin of the squid Doryteuthis pealeii

Coleoid cephalopods have visual systems that almost always contain a single spectral type of photoreceptor. Despite ... Alexandra CN Kingston, George Bell, Alan Kuzirian, Roger T Hanlon, Thomas W Cronin ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fphys.2013.25.00009/event_abstract?sname=International_Conference_on_Invertebrate_Vision

Complexity compounded: The evolution of phototransduction in stomatopods

Stomatopod crustaceans have complex visual systems containing up to 16 different spectral classes of ... L. Porter, Daniel I Speiser, Alexander K. Zaharoff, Roy L Caldwell, Todd H Oakley, Thomas W Cronin ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fphys.2013.25.00010/event_abstract?sname=International_Conference_on_Invertebrate_Vision

The evolution of polarization vision in stomatopods: molecules, signaling, and behavior

Polarization sensitivity occurs throughout the animal kingdom, including in pancrustaceans, cephalopods ... Megan L. Porter, Nicholas W Roberts, Roy L Caldwell, Justin Marshall, Thomas W Cronin ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00032/event_abstract?sname=Tenth_International_Congress_of_Neuroethology_1

Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean.

It has been suggested, on the basis of modern hydrology and fully coupled palaeoclimate ... Damsté, Gerald R Dickens, Matthew Huber, Thomas M Cronin, Jonaotaro Onodera, Kozo Takahashi, Jonathan P Bujak ...

http://www.frontiersin.org/publications/16752440