Susanne S. Renner
We are
working on the systematics, biogeography, and evolution of seed
plants. A long standing interest is the evolution of dioecy,
heterodichogamy, and sex
change. More recently, this has led to projects on the evolution
of plant sex chromosomes, focusing on the Cucurbitaceae Bryonia
and Coccinia. Other projects center on evolutionary
changes in genome size in Cucumis and Araceae. 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@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
...tell us a little about your research
and educational background.
Selected publications, sorted
by topics and clades
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
- Morrison, W.R., Lohr, J.L., Duchen, P.,
Wilches, R., Trujillo, D., Mair, M. and Renner, S.S. 2009. The
impact of taxonomic change on conservation: Does it kill, can
it save, or is it just irrelevant? Biological
Conservation 142: 3201-3206.
MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
- Cusimano, N., L.-B- Zhang,
and S. S. Renner. 2008. Reevaluation of the cox1 group
I intron in Araceae and angiosperms indicates a history dominated
by loss rather than horizontal transfer. Mol.
Biol. Evol. 25(2):112.
- Won, H., and S. S. Renner. 2003. Horizontal
gene transfer from flowering plants to Gnetum. Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. 100 (19): 10824-10829 (pdf).
- Won, H., and S. S. Renner. 2005.
The internal transcribed spacer of nuclear ribosomal DNA in the
gymnosperm Gnetum. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36(3):
581-597 (pdf).
- Won, H., and S. S. Renner. 2005. The chloroplast
trnT-trnF region in the seed plant lineage Gnetales. Journal
of Molecular Evolution 60(6): 425-436
(pdf).
REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY, more
about pollination and mating system evolution:
- 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.
- Gu, L., Z. Luo, D. Zhang,
S. S. Renner. 2009. Passerine pollination of Rhodoleia championii
(Hamamelidaceae) in subtropical China. Biotropica (accepted 9
July).
- Renner, S. S. 2007. Synchronous
flowering linked to changes in solar radiation intensity.
The
New Phytologist 175: 195-197.
- Renner, S. S. 2007. Structure in mutalistic
networks. Nature 448:
877-878.
- 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.
- 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.
- Luo, S., D. Zhang, S. S. Renner. 2006.
Duodichogamy and androdioecy in the Chinese Phyllanthaceae Bridelia
tomentosa. Am. J. Bot.
94(2): 260-265.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S. 2005. Rewardless
flowers in the angiosperms and the role of insect cognition in
their evolution. pdf. Pp. 123-144 in N. M. Waser and
J. Ollerton (eds.), Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From Specialization
to Generalization. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
- 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.
BIOGEOGRAPHY // LARGE SCALE ANALYSES
- Schaefer, H., C. Heibl,
and S. S. Renner. 2009. Gourds afloat: A dated phylogeny reveals
an Asian origin of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) and numerous
oversea dispersal events. Proc.
Roy. Soc. B. 276: 843-851.
- Li, Y., S. Dressler, D.
Zhang, and S. S. Renner. 2009. More Miocene dispersal between
Africa and Asia - the case of Bridelia (Phyllanthaceae).
Systematic
Botany 34(3): 521-529.
- Renner, S. S., G. W. Grimm,
G. Schneeweiss, T. F. Stuessy, and R. E. Ricklefs. 2008. Rooting
and dating maples (Acer) with an uncorrelated-rates molecular
clock: Implications for North American/Asian disjunctions. Systematic
Biology 57(5): 795-808.
- Renner, S. S., H. Schaefer,
and A. Kocyan. 2007. Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae):
Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade
far from melon (C. melo) BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007,
7:58.
- Renner, S. S. 2005. Relaxed molecular
clocks for dating historical plant dispersal events. Trends in Plant Science
10(11): 550-558 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S. 2004. Tropical trans-Atlantic
disjunctions, sea surface currents, and wind patterns. Int.
J. Plant Sciences 165(4 Suppl.): S23-S33.
- Givnish, T. J., and S. S. Renner. 2004.
Tropical
intercontinental disjunctions: Gondwana breakup, immigration
from the boreotropics, and transoceanic dispersal. Int.
J. Plant Sci. 165(4 Suppl.): S1-S6.
- Renner, S. S. 2005. Variation in diversity
among Laurales, early Cretaceous to Present. Biol.
Skr. 55: 441-458.
- Ricklefs, R. E., A. Schwarzbach, and S.
S. Renner. 2006. Rate of lineage origin explains the diversity
anomaly in the World's mangrove vegetation. Am.
Nat. 168: 805-810. pdf
- Grimm, G., A. Stamatakis,
S. S. Renner, and V. Hemleben. 2006. A nuclear ribosomal DNA
phylogeny of Acer inferred with maximum likelihood, splits
graphs, and motif analyses of 606 sequences. Evolutionary
Bioinformatics Online 2: 279-294.
- Zhang, L-B., M. P. Simmons, and S. S.
Renner. 2007. A phylogeny of Anisophylleaceae based on six nuclear
and plastid loci: Ancient disjunctions and recent dispersal between
South America, Africa, and Asia. Mol.
Phyl. Evol. 44(3): 1057-1067.
- Muellner, A. N., D. D. Vassiliades, and
S. S. Renner. Placing Biebersteiniaceae, a herbaceous clade of
Sapindales, in a temporal and geographic context. Plant
Systematics and Evolution 266: 233-252.
- Muellner, A. N., T. D. Pennington, S.
S. Renner.. Phylogenetic patterns, fossils, and molecular clocks
provide evidence for repeated entry of Cedreleae (Meliaceae,
Sapindales) into South America before and after the closure of
the Panamanian Isthmus. (Submitted 3 Aug. 2009)
- Gottschling, M., S. S.
Renner, K.J. S. Meier, H. Willems, and H. Keupp. 2008. Timing
deep divergence events in calcareous dinoflagellates. J. Phycol. 44(2): 429-438.
PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION *SORTED
BY CLADE
GYMNOSPERMS
- Won, H., and S. S. Renner. 2003. Horizontal
gene transfer from flowering plants to Gnetum. Proc. Natl.
Acad. Sci. 100 (19): 10824-10829 (pdf).
- Won, H., and S. S. Renner. 2005.
The internal transcribed spacer of nuclear ribosomal DNA in the
gymnosperm Gnetum. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36(3):
581-597 (pdf).
- Won, H., and S. S. Renner. 2005. The chloroplast
trnT-trnF region in the seed plant lineage Gnetales. Journal
of Molecular Evolution 60(6): 425-436
(pdf).
- Won, H., and S. S. Renner. 2006. Dating
dispersal and radiation in the gymnosperm Gnetum (Gnetales)
- clock calibration when outgroup relationships are uncertain.
Syst. Biol. 55(4):
610-622. pdf
- Renner, S. S. 2009. Gymnosperms.
Pp. 157-160 in S. B. Hedges and S. Kumar, eds., The Timetree
of Life, Oxford University Press.
- Ickert-Bond, S. M., C.
Rydin, and S. S. Renner. A fossil-calibrated relaxed clock for
Ephedra indicates an Oligocene age for the divergence
of Asian and New World clades, and Miocene dispersal into
South America. Journal
of Systematics and Evolution 47(5): 444-456.
ANGIOSPERMS GENERAL
- Qiu, Y.-L., O. Dombrovska, J. H. Lee,
L.B. Li, B. A. Whitlock, F. Bernasconi-Quadroni, J. S. Rest,
C. C. Davis, T. Borsch, K. W. Hilu, S. S. Renner, D. E. Soltis,
P. S. Soltis, M. J. Zanis, J. J. Cannone, R. R. Gutell, M. Powell,
V. Savolainen, L. W. Chatrou, M. W. Chase. 2005. Phylogenetic
analyses of basal angiosperms based on nine plastid, mitochondrial,
and nuclear genes. Int. J.
Plant Science166 (5): 815-842 (pdf).
- Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Bogdanowicz, W.,
Borsch, T., Delsuc, F., Hassanin, A., Jondelius, U., Petersen,
G., Renner, S.S., Savolainen, V., Seberg, O., Smets, E. and A.
Vogler. 2009. Assembling the Tree of Life in Europe (AToLE).
Nature Preceedings doi:10.1038/npre.2009.2891.
CHLORANTHACEAE
- Zhang, L.-B., and S. S. Renner. 2003.
The deepest splits in Chloranthaceae as resolved by chloroplast
sequences. Intern. J. Plant Science 164(5 Suppl.): S383-S392
(pdf).
- 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 (pdf).
MONOCOTS
- Cusimano, N., W. L. A.
Hetterscheid, and S. S. Renner. 2009. A phylogeny for the largest
genus of Areae implies that Typhonium, Sauromatum,
and the Australian Typhonium are distinct clades. Taxon
- S. S. Renner, L.-B. Zhang, and J. Murata.
2004. A chloroplast phylogeny of Arisaema (Araceae) illustrates
Tertiary floristic links between Asia, North America, and East
Africa. Am. J. Bot. 91(6): 881-888 (pdf).
- S. S. Renner, L.-B. Zhang, and J. Murata.
2004. Fossil identifications used in molecular dating studies
should be justified. Am. J. Bot. eLetter with image of holotype of Arisaema
hesperica Knowlton. This discussion
is continued in Gandolfo, M., K. C. Nixon, and W. L. Crepet.
2008. Selection of fossils for calibration of molecular dating
models. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 95(1): 34-44.
and S. S. Renner and J. Bogner. manuscript. The
need for collaboration between paleobotanists and neobotanists
when using fossils for calibration of molecular clocks.
- S. S. Renner, and L.-B. Zhang. 2004. Biogeography
of the Pistia clade (Araceae) based on cp and mtDNA sequences
and Bayesian divergence time inference. Syst. Biol. 53(3): 422-432
(pdf). Compare popular
write-up in Aquaphyte
online, Summer 2003.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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).
- Wang, Y., D. Zhang, S. S. Renner, and
Z. Chen. 2004. A new self-pollination mechanism. Nature
431: 39-40 (pdf).
LAURALES: PHYLOGENETICS, BIOGEOGRAPHY,
and TAXONOMY
- Renner, S. S. 2005. Variation in diversity
among Laurales, early Cretaceous to Present. Biol.
Skr. 55: 441-458.
- Zhou, S.,
S. S. Renner, and J. Wen. 2006. Molecular phylogeny and inter-
and intracontinental biogeography of Calycanthaceae. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution 39: 1-15 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S., and A. Chanderbali. 2000.
What is the relationship among Hernandiaceae, Lauraceae, and
Monimiaceae, and why is this question so difficult to answer?
Int. J. Plant Science 161(6 Suppl.): S109-119 (pdf).
- Chanderbali, A. S., H. van der Werff,
S. S. Renner. 2001. Phylogeny and historical biogeography of
Lauraceae: evidence from the chloroplast and nuclear genomes.
Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden
88(1): 104-134 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S. 1999. Circumscription and
phylogeny of Laurales: evidence from molecular and morphological
data. American Journal of Botany 86: 1301-1315 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S., Murray, D., and D. Foreman.
2000. Timing transantarctic disjunctions in the Atherospermataceae
(Laurales): evidence from coding and noncoding chloroplast sequences.
Syst. Biol. 49(3): 579-591 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S. 1998. Phylogenetic affinities
of Monimiaceae based on cpDNA gene and spacer sequences. Perspectives
in Plant Ecology, Systematics and Evolution 1: 61-77 (pdf).
- Laurales. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences at http://www.els.net/
- Renner, S. S., Schwarzbach, A. E., and
L. Lohmann. 1997. Phylogenetic position and floral function of
Siparuna (Siparunaceae: Laurales). Intern. J. Plant Science
158(6 suppl.): 89-98 (pdf).
- Takeuchi, W., and S. S. Renner. 2002.
A generic record for Faika (Monimiaceae) in Papua New
Guinea. Flora Malesiana Bull. 13(1): 54-55.
- Renner, S. S., and W. N. Takeuchi. 2009.
A phylogeny and revised circumscription for Kairoa (Monimiaceae),
with the description of a new species from Papua New Guinea.
Harvard Papers in
Botany 14(1): 71-81.
- Renner, S. S., and G. Hausner. 2000. New
species of Siparuna (Siparunaceae) III. Three new species
and one newly ranked entity from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Novon 10: 134-143 (full text).
- Renner, S. S., and G. Hausner. 1997. Siparuna
(Siparunaceae) and Mollinedia (Monimiaceae). Flora
of Ecuador 59: 1-125.
- Renner, S. S., and G. Hausner. 2005. New
Species of Siparuna (Siparunaceae) IV. A new subcanopy
species from white-sand areas in Brazil and Venezuela. Novon
15(1): 202-206 (full text); plates
1 & 2.
- Renner, S. S., and G. Hausner. 2005. Monograph
of Siparunaceae. Flora Neotropica 95: 1-256. ISBN 0.89327.462.3.
(see online Flora of Ecuador.)
CUCURBITALES: EVOLUTION, POLLINATION,
TAXONOMY
- Nee, M., H. Schaefer,
and S. S. Renner. 2009. The relationship between Anisosperma
and Fevillea (Cucurbitaceae), and a new species of
Fevillea from Bolivia. Systematic Botany 34(4): 00-00.
- Schaefer, H., and S. S.
Renner. 2009. A three-genome phylogeny of Momordica (Cucurbitaceae)
suggests seven returns from dioecy to monoecy and recent long-distance
dispersal to Asia. Molecular
Phylogenetics and Evolution, corrected proofs
- Renner, S. S. and H. Schaefer. 2009. The
evolution and loss of oil-offering flowers -- new insights from
dated phylogenies for plants and bees. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc.
- Schaefer, H., and S. S.
Renner. 2008. A phylogeny of the oil bee tribe Ctenoplectrini
(Hymenoptera: Anthophila) based on mitochondrial and nuclear
data: Evidence for Early Eocene divergence and repeated out-of-Africa
dispersal. Molecular
Phylogeny and Evolution 47: 799-811.
- Schaefer, H., C. Heibl, and S. S. Renner.
2009. Gourds afloat: A dated phylogeny reveals an Asian origin
of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) and numerous oversea dispersal
events. Proc. Roy.
Soc. B. 276: 843-851.
- Zhang, L.-B., M. P. Simmons,
A. Kocyan, and S. S. Renner. 2006. Phylogeny of the Cucurbitales
based on DNA sequences of nine loci from three genomes: Implications
for morphological and sexual system evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution 39: 305-322 (pdf).
- Zhang, L-B., M. P. Simmons,
and S. S. Renner. 2007. A phylogeny of Anisophylleaceae based
on six nuclear and plastid loci: Ancient disjunctions and recent
dispersal between South America, Africa, and Asia. Mol. Phyl.
Evol. 44(3): 1057-1067.
- Kocyan, A., L-B. Zhang,
H. Schaefer, and S. S. Renner. 2007. A multi-locus chloroplast
phylogeny for the Cucurbitaceae and its implications for character
evolution and classification. Mol.
Phyl. Evol. 44. 553-577.
- Renner, S. S., H. Schaefer,
and A. Kocyan. 2007. Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae):
Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade
far from melon (C. melo) BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007,
7:58.
- Renner, S. S., and H. Schaefer. 2008.
Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) as understood
in 2008. Pitrat M. (ed): Cucurbitaceae 2008, Proceedings of the
IXth EUCARPIA meeting on genetics and breeding of Cucurbitaceae,
Avignon (France), May 21-24th, 2008, pp. 53-58. Available
at https://w3.avignon.inra.fr/dspace/handle/2174/236
- Schaefer, H., I. R. H.
Telford, and S. S. Renner. 2008. Austrobryonia (Cucurbitaceae),
a new Australian endemic genus, is the closest living relative
to the Eurasian and Mediterranean Bryonia and Ecballium.
Systematic
Botany 33:125-132.
- Schaefer, H., Kocyan, A., and S. S. Renner.
2008. Linnaeosicyos (Cucurbitaceae): a new genus for
Trichosanthes amara, the Caribbean sister species of all
Sicyeae. Systematic Botany
33(2): 349-355.
- Renner S.S., Scarborough J., Schaefer
H., Paris H.S., and J. Janick. 2008. Dioscorides's bruonia melaina
is Bryonia alba, not Tamus communis, and an illustration
labeled bruonia melaina in the Codex Vindobonensis is Humulus
lupulus not Bryonia dioica. In: Cucurbitaceae 2008.
Pitrat M. (ed). Proceedings of the IXth EUCARPIA meeting on genetics
and breeding of Cucurbitaceae, Avignon (France), May 21-24th,
2008, pp. 273-280. Available at https://w3.avignon.inra.fr/dspace/handle/2174/218
- Schaefer, H. & Renner, S.S. Cucurbitaceae.
Draft treatment for K. Kubitzki, ed., Families and Genera of
Flowering Plants. Springer Verlag, Berlin. Overview
of the new tribal classification here.
- 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.
- Volz, S. M., and S. S.
Renner. 2009. Phylogeography of the ancient Eurasian medicinal
plant genus Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae) inferred from nuclear
and chloroplast sequences. Taxon
58(2): 550-560.
- Oyama, R. K., S. M. Volz,
and S. S. Renner. 2009. A sex-linked SCAR marker in Bryonia
dioica (Cucurbitaceae), a dioecious species with XY sex-determination
and homomorphic sex chromosomes. J. Evol. Biol. 22(1): 214-224.
ASCLEPIADACEAE
- Wanntorp, L., A. Kocyan, R. van Donkelaar,
and S. S. Renner. 2006. Towards a monophyletic Hoya (Marsdenieae,
Apocynaceae): inferences from the chloroplast trnL region and
the rbcL-atpB spacer. Syst.
Bot. 31(3): 586-596.
- Wanntorp, L., A. Kocyan, and S. S. Renner.
Wax plants disentangled: A phylogeny of Hoya (Asclepioideae,
Apocynaceae) inferred from nuclear and chloroplast sequences.
Mol. Phyl. Evol. 39(3): 722-733.
MELASTOMATACEAE AND RELATED MYRTALES
- Renner, S. S. Melastomataceae. In Checklist
of the Vascular Plants of Bolivia, ed. P. M. Jorgensen, The Missouri
Botanical Garden. Available upon request.
- Renner, S. S. 2007. Melastomataceae
of Papua. Pp. 399-403 in Marshall, A. J., and Beehler, B.
M. (eds.), The Ecology of Papua. Singapore: Periplus Editions.
- Chen, C., and Renner, S. S. 2007. Melastomataceae. Pp.
360-399 in Z. Y. Wu and P. H. Raven (eds.), Flora of China 13,
Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press,
St. Louis. 21
genera, 114 species, 72 endemic in China
- Renner, S. S. 2006. Crypteroniaceae.
Pp. 123-126 In K. Kubitzki, ed., The Families and Genera
of Vascular Plants. Springer Vlg., Heidelberg.
- Renner, S. S. 2004. Multiple Miocene Melastomataceae
dispersal between Madagascar, Africa, and India. Phil. Trans.
R. Soc. Lond. B 359: 14851494 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S. 2004. Bayesian analysis
of combined data partitions, using multiple calibrations, supports
recent arrival of Melastomataceae in Africa and Madagascar. Am.
J. Bot. 91(9): 1427-1435 (pdf).
- Fritsch, P. W., F. Almeda, S. S. Renner,
A. B. Martins, and B. Cruz. 2004. Phylogeny and circumscription
of the near-endemic Brazilian tribe Microlicieae (Melastomataceae).
Am. J. Bot. 91(7): 1105-1114 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S., and S. G. Beck. 2003. A
new Miconia from Bolivia (Melastomatacaeae), with remarks
on angular-branched species in the Andes. Novon 13(1): 110-112
(pdf; photo
of the new species).
- Wurdack, J., and S. S. Renner. 2002. Melastomataceae.
In S. A. Mori, G. Cremers, C. A. Gracie, J.-J. de Granville,
S. V. Heald, M. Hoff, and J. D. Mitchell, eds., Guide
to the vascular plants of central French Guiana. Part 2.
Dicotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76(2): 437-465.
- Renner, S. S., G. Clausing, and K. Meyer.
2001. Historical biogeography of Melastomataceae: The roles of
Tertiary migration and long distance dispersal. Am. J. Bot. 88(7):
1290-1300 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S., and K. Meyer. 2001. Melastomeae
come full circle: biogeographic reconstruction and molecular
clock dating. Evolution 55(7): 1315-1324 (pdf).
- Clausing, G., and S. S. Renner. 2001.
Molecular phylogenetics of Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae:
implications for character evolution. Am. J. Bot. 88(3): 486-498
(pdf).
- Renner, S. S., G. Clausing, N. Cellinese,
and K. Meyer 2001. Melastomataceae.
Pp. 412-496 in K. Larsen and I. Nielsen, eds., Flora of Thailand
7,3. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Dept., Bangkok .
- Clausing, G., Meyer, K., and S. S. Renner.
2000. Correlations among fruit traits and evolution of different
fruits within Melastomataceae. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 133(3): 303-326
(abstract).
- Renner, S. S. 1990. A revision of Rhynchanthera
(Melastomataceae). Nordic
Journal of Botany 9: 601-630.
- Renner, S. S. 1993. Phylogeny and classification
of the Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae. Nordic
Journal of Botany 13: 519-540.
- Renner, S. S. 1994. Revisions of Pterogastra
and Schwackaea (Melastomataceae: Melastomeae). Nordic
Journal of Botany 14: 65-71.
- Renner, S. S. 1994. A revision of Pterolepis
(Melastomataceae: Melastomeae). Nordic
Journal of Botany 14: 73-104.
- Renner, S. S. 1997. Melastomataceae. In
The European Garden Flora, vol. V: 323-335. Cambridge University
Press.
- Renner, S. S. 1987. Sandemania hoehnei
(Tibouchineae: Melastomataceae): taxonomy, distribution,
and biology. Brittonia 39: 441-446 (pdf).
SEXUAL
SYSTEMS AND POLLINATION
- Renner, S. S. and H. Schaefer. The evolution
and loss of oil-offering flowers -- new insights from dated phylogenies
for plants and bees. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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 (pdf).
- 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.
- 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).
- 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).
- Wang, Y., D. Zhang, S. S. Renner, and
Z. Chen. 2004. A new self-pollination mechanism. Nature
431: 39-40 (pdf).
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).
- Renner, S. S. 2001.
Heterodichogamy, how common is it? Trends Ecol. Evol. 16(11):
595-597.
- Renner, S..S., and H. Won 2001. Repeated
evolution of dioecy
from monoecy in Siparunaceae (Laurales). Syst. Biol. 50(5):
700-712 (pdf). This cites
a database
of angiosperm genera with dioecious species.
For more on this database see:
- 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 (pdf).
- 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 (pdf).
- 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
(pdf).
- Gumbert, A., and S. S. Renner. 1999. Sex-specific
floral traits in Ecuadorian fly-pollinated dioecious and trioecious
species of Oreopanax (Araliaceae). 12. Jahrestagung Dt.
Ges. Tropenökologie. Ulm (poster
abstract).
- 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 (pdf).
- 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.
- 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 (abstract).
- 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 (abstract).
- Renner, S. S., and R. E. Ricklefs. 1995.
Dioecy and its correlates in the flowering plants. Am. J. Bot.
82(5): 596-606 (pdf).
- Ricklefs, R. E., and S. S. Renner. 1994.
Species richness within families of flowering plants. Evolution
48(5): 1619-1636 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S., and J. P. Feil. 1993. Pollinators
of tropical dioecious angiosperms. Am. J. Bot. 80: 1100-1107
(pdf).
- Renner, S. S. 1989. A survey of reproductive
biology in neotropical Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae. Ann.
Missouri Bot. Gard. 76: 496-518 (pdf).
- Renner, S. S. 1983. The widespread occurrence
of anther destruction by Trigona bees in Melastomataceae.
Biotropica 15: 257-267 (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. 2005. F. Michelangeli.
Tococa (Melastomataceae). Flora Neotropica 98. Kew Bulletin
00: 00-00.
- 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.
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Ph.D. students since 1999
- Gudrun Kadereit (née Clausing): Die Systematik der Dissochaeteae und ihre Stellung
innerhalb der Melastomataceae. Defended 1999 at the University
of Mainz, Germany.
- Karsten Meyer: Phylogenie und Systematik
der Gattung Melastoma unter besonderer Berücksichtigung
des M. malabathricum Komplexes. Defended 1999 at the University
of Mainz.
- André S. Chanderbali (co-advised
with Henk van der Werff, The Missouri Botanical Garden): Contributions
to the systematics of Lauraceae: 1. Phylogeny and historic biogeography
of Lauraceae: evidence from the chloroplast and nuclear genomes
[Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 88: 104-134. 2001]. 2. A monograph
of Endlicheria (Flora Neotropica 2005). Defended at the
Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis, 2001. André is now a postdoc
in the lab of Doug and Pam Soltis at the University of Florida
in Gainesville.
- Hyosig Won: Phylogeny, biogeography, and
systematics of Gnetum. Defended at the Univ. of Missouri-St.
Louis, 2004. Hyosig is now an assistant professor in the Department
of Biological Science, Daegu University
- Stefanie Volz, Ludwig
Maximilians University, Munich, Jan. 2004-Sep 2007. The evolution
of combined versus separate sexes in Bryonia and Ecballium
(Cucurbitaceae), using phylogenetic and phylogeographic approaches.
Stefanie has accepted a position as a teacher at a gymnasium
(high school) in Munich.
- Natalie Cusimano,
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, May 2005-May 2009: The
evolution of the Arum clade: Intron evolution, biogeography,
and diversification.
- Christoph Heibl,
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Oct 2006-: Evolution of
the Atacama Desert flora: Insights from phylogeographic and phylogenetic
studies on Oxalis.
- Norbert Holstein,
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Sep 2007-: The evolution
of dimorphic sex chromosomes in Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae).>
summary
of our DFG-funded project.
- Patrizia Sebastian,
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, May 2008-: The evolution
and biogeography of Cucumis and Sicyos (Cucurbitaceae)
- Li Yongquan, Oct 2007-25 April 2008. Yongquan
received a fellowship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and
his Ph.D. thesis was advised jointly by Prof. Zhang Dianxiang
from the South China Botanical Garden and Susanne Renner. Dr.
Li is now working at in Camellia breeding.
- Lars Nauheimer, Ludwig Maximilians University,
Munich, March 2009- : The evolution of Asian Araceae genus Alocasia.
- Juliana Chacon, Ludwig Maximilians University,
Munich, Sep. 2009- : The evolution of Alstroemeria and
Bomarea
Past and present postdoctoral
associates
- Nov. 2001-31 May 2002, Aruna
Weerasooriya, now an assisstant professor at the University
of Mississippi in Oxford. In the Renner lab, Aruna worked on
Cucurbitaceae.
- June 2002-31 May 2003, Libing
Zhang, now a curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden. In
the Renner lab, Libing worked on Chloranthaceae, the Pistia clade,
and Cucurbitaceae.
- March 2004-Jan. 2005, Livia
Wanntorp, now an Associate Professor in the Department of
Botany at Stockholm University. While in Munich, Livia worked
on Hoya.
- February to September 2006, Ludwig
Beenken, now a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in Zurich.
In the Renner lab, Ludwig worked on the phylogenetics of Acer.
- June 2003-31 May 2007, Alexander
Kocyan, now a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in the group
of Prof. Alex Widmer at the Institute für integrative Biologie
at the ETH in Zurich. In the Renner lab, Alexander worked on
Cucurbitaceae.
- September 2004-30 April 2008, Hanno
Schaefer, now a Marie Curie fellow with Prof. Vincent Savolainen
at Imperial College and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In the
Renner lab, Hanno worked on Cucurbitaceae and Ctenoplectra bees.
- November 2004- present, Boris
O. Schlumpberger. Boris came to Munich from a postdoc at
the University of South Carolina, where he worked with Bob Raguso
on the evolution of floral traits in the Echinopsis species
complex of Andean Cactaceae. In the Renner lab, he continues
to work on pollinator-mediated evolution and diversification
in Echinopsis (Trichocereeae):
summary of our DFG-funded project.
- October 2006-, Ryan
Oyama. Ryan came to Munich from the Max Planck Institute
for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, where he worked with Thomas
Mitchell-Olds on the genetics of speciation and ecological divergence
in wild relatives of Arabidopsis thaliana found in central
Europe. In Munich, Ryan is working on the evolution of sex chromosomes
in Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae)> summary
of our DFG-funded project.
- May 2009- present, Shixao Luo. Dr. Luo
is a researcher at the South China Botanical Garden in Guanghjou,
and his research in the Renner lab is funded by the Chinese Academy
of Science. Shixiao is currently working on the reproductive
biology of Phyllanthaceae, of Illicium, and Clerodendrum,
all in a comparative phylogenetic framework.
- May 2009- present, Natalia Filipowicz.
Dr. Filipowicz is a researcher at the Medical University of Gdansk,
Poland. In the Renner lab, she is working on the economically
important groups Brunfelsia (Solanaceae) and Luffa
(Cucurbitaceae)
Education & Positions
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, University of Missouri-St. Louis; 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)
MAILING ADDRESSES
Susanne S. Renner
Systematische Botanik
Menzinger Str. 67
D-80638 Muenchen
My addresses in the US are
Department of Biology
University of Missouri-St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
OR
The Missouri Botanical Garden
P.O. Box 266
St. Louis, MO 63166
Last up-dated: 3 November 2009
