References in google scholar
We are working on
the systematics, biogeography, and evolution of plants. A long-standing
interest is the evolution of dioecy, heterodichogamy,
and sex change. These interests led to projects on the evolution of plant sex
chromosomes, focusing on Cucurbitaceae, and work on
genome size evolution in Orobanchaceae and Araceae, using molecular cytogenetics
and next generation sequencing. Biogeographic work has focused on Cucurbitaceae, Melastomataceae, Chloranthaceae, Araceae, and
families in the order Laurales, namely Calycanthaceae,
Atherospermataceae, Hernandiaceae,
Lauraceae, Monimiaceae, and
Siparunaceae
*see online Flora of Ecuador. In much of this work, molecular clocks and their
calibration with fossils play a large role.
Main email address (alternative mailing
addresses see end of page): renner@lmu.de
Selected
publications, sorted by topics and clades
MODERN
TAXONOMY, BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, ROLE OF SYSTEMATICS IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
MOLECULAR
EVOLUTION
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Piednoel, M., G. Carette-Vega, and S. S. Renner. 2013. Characterization
of the LTR retrotransposon repertoire of a plant
clade of six diploid and one tetraploid species (The
Plant Journal, in revision).
REPRODUCTIVE
BIOLOGY & SEX CHROMOSOMES, more
about pollination and mating system evolution:
BIOGEOGRAPHY // DIVERSIFICATION ANALYSES //
MACRO-EVOLUTION
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Heibl, C., and S. S.
Renner. 2012. Distribution models and a dated phylogeny for Chilean Oxalis species reveal occupation of new
habitats by different lineages, not rapid adaptive radiation. Systematic Biology 61(5): 823-834. doi:
10.1093/sysbio/sys034.
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Renner, S. S.
2010. Biogeographic insights from a short-lived Paleocene island in the Ninetyeast Ridge. Journal of Biogeography 37(7):
1177-1178.
PHYLOGENY
AND EVOLUTION *SORTED BY CLADE
HORNWORTS,
sister to the vascular plants
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Villarreal, J.
C., and S. S. Renner. 2012. Hornwort pyrenoids,
carbon-concentrating structures, evolved and were lost at least five times
during the last 100 million years. Proceedings of the National Academy, USA
109(46): 18873-18878, 10.1073/pnas.1213498109
pdf with
online supporting materials included.
GYMNOSPERMS
ANGIOSPERMS
GENERAL
CHLORANTHACEAE
MONOCOTS
LAURALES:
PHYLOGENETICS, BIOGEOGRAPHY, and TAXONOMY
RANUNCULALES
CARYOPHYLLALES
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Schlumpberger, B. O., and
S. S. Renner. 2012. The relative roles of polyploidy,
pollinator switches, and plant architecture in the evolution of Echinopsis,
one of the largest genera of Cactaceae. American
Journal of Botany 99(8): 1335-1349.
BRASSICALES
CUCURBITALES
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Bellot,
S., and S. S. Renner. Pollination and mating systems of Apodanthaceae,
and the evolution of reproductive-biological traits in parasitic angiosperms.
American Journal of Botany (in press).
ASCLEPIADACEAE
MELASTOMATACEAE
AND RELATED MYRTALES
SOLANALES
SEXUAL SYSTEMS AND POLLINATION
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Borchert, R., S. S.
Renner, Z. Calle, D. Navarrete,
A. Tye, L. Gautier, R. Spichiger,
and P. von Hildebrand. 2005. Photoperiodic induction of synchronous flowering
near the equator. Nature. 433: 627-629.
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Renner, S. S.
2007. Synchronous flowering linked to changes in solar radiation intensity. The New Phytologist
175: 195-197.
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Ervik, F., S. S. Renner,
and K. A. Johanson. 1995. Breeding system and
pollination of Nuphar luteum (L.)
Smith (Nymphaeaceae) in Norway. Flora 190: 109-113 (volume not online)
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Lippok, B., and S. S.
Renner. 1997. Pollination of Nuphar (Nymphaeaceae) in Europe:
flies and bees rather than Donacia beetles. Plant Systematics and Evolution 207(3-4):
273-283.
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Lippok, B., Gardine, A. A., Williamson, P. S., and S. S. Renner. 2000.
Pollination by flies, bees, and beetles of Nuphar ozarkana and N. advena (Nymphaeaceae).
Am. J. Bot. 87(6):
898-902.
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Jersákova, J., Kindlmann, P., and S. S. Renner 2006. Is the colour dimorphism in Dactylorhiza sambucina maintained by differential seed
viability instead of frequency-dependent selection? Folia Geobotanica
41: 61-76.
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Kropf, M., and S. S.
Renner. 2005. Pollination success in monochromic yellow populations of the rewardless orchid Dactylorhiza sambucina. Plant Syst. Evol. 254:
185-197 (pdf).
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Kropf, M., and S. S.
Renner. 2008. Pollinator-mediated selfing in two
deceptive orchids and a review of pollinium tracking
studies addressing geitonogamy. Oecologia
155: 497-508.
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Renner, S. S. 2005. Rewardless
flowers in the angiosperms and the role of insect cognition in their evolution. Pp.
123-144 in N. M. Waser and J. Ollerton (eds.), Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From
Specialization to Generalization. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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Renner, S. S.
2007. Structure in mutalistic networks. Nature 448:
877-878.
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Gu, L., Z. Luo, D. Zhang, S. S. Renner. 2010 Passerine pollination of Rhodoleia championii (Hamamelidaceae) in subtropical China. Biotropica
42(3): 336–341.
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Luo, S., Chaw, S., Zhang,
D., and S. S. Renner. 2010. Flower heating following anthesis and
the evolution of gall midge pollination in Schisandraceae.
American Journal of Botany 97(7): 1220-1228.
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Luo, S., D. Zhang, and S.
S. Renner. 2006. Oxalis debilis in China: distribution of flower morphs,
sterile pollen, and polyploidy. Ann. Bot. 98: 459464 (pdf).
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Luo, S., D. Zhang, S. S. Renner.
2006. Duodichogamy and androdioecy
in the Chinese Phyllanthaceae Bridelia tomentosa. Am. J. Bot.
94(2): 260-265.
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Luo, S.X., Li,
Y., Chen, S., Zhang, D., and S. S. Renner. 2011. Gelechiidae
moths are capable of chemically dissolving the pollen of their Phyllanthaceae hosts. PLoS ONE
6(4): e19219. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019219
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Luo, Z., D. Zhang, and S.
S. Renner. 2008. Why two kinds of stamens in buzz-pollinated flowers?
Experimental support for Darwin's division-of-labor hypothesis. Functional
Ecology 22: 794-800.
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Clausing, G., and S. S.
Renner. 2001. Evolution of growth form in epiphytic Dissochaeteae
(Melastomataceae). Org. Divers. Evol.
1(1): 45-60 (pdf;
supplementary
materials and illustrations).
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Renner, S. S.
1983. The widespread occurrence of anther destruction by Trigona bees in Melastomataceae. Biotropica 15: 257-267.
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Renner, S. S.
1989. A survey of reproductive biology in neotropical
Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae.
Annals
of the Missouri Botanical Garden 76: 496-518.
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Renner, S. S.
1998. Effects of habitat fragmentation on plant-pollinator interactions in the
tropics. In D.M. Newbery, H.H.T. Prins & N.D. Brown, eds.,
Dynamics of Tropical Communities, pp. 339-360. Blackwell Scientific Publishers,
London.
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Renner, S. S.
2001. Heterodichogamy, how common is it? Trends Ecol. Evol. 16(11): 595-597.
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Renner, S. S. and H. Schaefer. 2010. The evolution
and loss of oil-offering flowers -- new insights from dated phylogenies for
plants and bees. Phil.
Trans. Roy. Soc. 365: 423-435.
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Renner, S. S.,
and J. P. Feil. 1993. Pollinators of tropical dioecious angiosperms. Am. J. Bot. 80: 1100-1107 (pdf).
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Renner, S. S., and R. E. Ricklefs.
1995. Dioecy and its correlates in the flowering
plants. Am.
J. Bot. 82(5): 596-606.
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Renner, S. S.,
and R. E. Ricklefs. 1998. Herbicidal activity of domatia-inhabiting ants in patches of Tococa guianensis and Clidemia heterophylla. Biotropica 30: 324-327.
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Renner, S. S.,
L. Beenken, G. W. Grimm, A. Kocyan,
and R. E. Ricklefs. 2007. The evolution of dioecy, heterodichogamy, and
labile sex expression in Acer. Evolution
61: 27012719.
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Renner, S..S., and H. Won 2001. Repeated evolution of dioecy from monoecy in Siparunaceae (Laurales). Syst. Biol. 50(5): 700-712.
This cites a Database
of angiosperm genera with dioecious species. The same database was used in this paper:
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Ricklefs, R. E., and S. S.
Renner. 1994. Species richness within families of flowering plants. Evolution 48(5): 1619-1636.
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Ricklefs, R. E., and S. S.
Renner. 2000. Evolutionary flexibility and flowering plant familial diversity:
a comment on Dodd, Silvertown, and Chase. Evolution
54(3): 1061-1065.
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Sun, J-F., Y-B. Gong, S. S. Renner, and S-Q. Huang. 2008.
Multifunctional bracts in the dove tree Davidia involucrata (Nyssaceae: Cornales): rain
protection and pollinator attraction. American Naturalist 171: 119-124.
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Tosaki, Y., S. S. Renner,
and H. Takahashi. 2001. Pollination of Sarcandra glabra (Chloranthaceae) in
natural populations in Japan. J. Plant Res. 114: 423-427.
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Volz,
S. M., and S. S. Renner. 2008. Hybridization, polyploidy, and evolutionary
transitions between monoecy and dioecy
in Bryonia
(Cucurbitaceae). Am. J. Bot. 95: 1297-1306.
· Wang, Y., D. Zhang, S. S. Renner, and Z. Chen. 2004. A new self-pollination mechanism. Nature 431: 39-40 (pdf).
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Wang, Y., D. Zhang,
S. S. Renner, and Z. Chen. 2005. Self-pollination by sliding pollen in Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Zingiberaceae). Int. J. Plant Sciences 166(5): 753-759 (pdf).
HISTORY, COMMENTARY & BOOK REVIEWS
Renner, S. S. 1993. A history
of botanical exploration in Amazonian Ecuador (1738-1988). Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 82: 1-39.
400 words on the phylocode and phylogenetic systems
of naming clades. Invited comment for the Smithsonian's March 2001
symposium on Linnaean Taxonomy in the 21st Century.
Renner, S. S. 2003. C. Herrera and O. Pellmyr, eds., 2002. Plant-Animal Interactions an Evolutionary Approach. Am. J.
Bot. 90(2): 330-332 (pdf).
Renner, S. S. 2003. I. C. W. Hardy, ed., Sex Ratios - Concepts
and Research Methods. Plant Science Bulletin 48(1): 18-19.
Renner, S. S. 2004. J. V. Crisci, L. Katinas,
and P. Posadas, 2003. Historical Biogeography - An
Introduction. Plant Science
Bulletin 50(4): 127.
Renner, S. S. 2006. Review
of Biogeography, Third Edition by Mark V.
Lomolino, Brett R. Riddle, and James H. Brown.
Syst.
Biol. 55(4): 696-698.
Renner, S. S. 2007. Placing plant mating
in a broad ecological context. Review of Lawrence D. Harder
and Spencer C. H. Barrett, Editors, Ecology
and Evolution of Flowers.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22(10): 512-513.
Renner, S. S. 2010. Review of L. R. Parenti and
M. C. Ebach, Comparative Biogeography: Discovering
and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic
Earth.
Quarterly Review of Biology 85(2): 224.
Renner, S. S. 2011. Living fossil younger
than thought. Science 334: 766-767. Invited
commentary on N. S. Nagalingum et al., Science 334,
2011.
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Ph.D.
students since 1999
Past
and present postdoctoral associates
1980 M. Sc. in Biology, University of
Hamburg
1984 Dr. rer. nat.,
University of Hamburg
1992 Habilitation (Dr. habil.) in Botanical
systematics
1987-92 Associate Professor, Botanical
Institute, University of Aarhus
1993-96 Full Professor, Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Mainz
1996-06 Professor, Department of Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis
1996- Associate Faculty, The Missouri
Botanical Garden
2003- Chair, Systematic Botany, Ludwig Maximilians
University Munich;
Director of the Nymphenburg
Botanical Garden;
Director
of the Botanische Staatssammlung
(M) and the University Herbarium (MSB)
2012- Adjunct Professor, Department of
Biology, University of Missouri-St. Louis
MAILING ADDRESSES
Susanne S. Renner
Botanische Staatsanstalten
Menzinger Str. 67
80638 Munich, Germany
My professional address in the US is
Department of Biology
University of Missouri-St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
Last up-dated: 12 March 2013