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, S., Chaw, S., Zhang, D., and S.
S. Renner. Flower heating following anthesis and the evolution of gall midge
pollination in Schisandraceae. American Journal of Botany, accepted 23 April 2010.
- Gu, L., Z. Luo, D. Zhang, S. S.
Renner. 2010 Passerine pollination of Rhodoleia championii (Hamamelidaceae) in subtropical
China. Biotropica. 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00585.x Biotropica
(online early).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Cusimano, N., and S. S. Renner.
2010. Slowdowns in diversification rates from real phylogenies may not be
real. Systematic Biology
59(4): 00-00. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syq032
- Renner, S. S. 2010. Biogeographic
insights from a short-lived Paleocene island in the Ninetyeast Ridge. Journal of Biogeography doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02355.x
- 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. 2007. Placing Biebersteiniaceae, a herbaceous clade of Sapindales,
in a temporal and geographic context. Plant
Systematics and Evolution 266: 233-252.
- 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.
- Muellner, A. N., T. D. Pennington, A. V. Koecke,
S. S. Renner. 2010. Biogeography of Cedrela (Meliaceae, Sapindales) in Central and South
America. American Journal of Botany
97(3): 511-518.
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. 2009. 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., M. Barrett, W. L. A.
Hetterscheid, and S. S. Renner. 2010. A phylogeny of the Areae (Araceae)
implies that Typhonium,Sauromatum, and the Australian species of Typhonium are distinct clades. Taxon 59: 439-447.
- Renner, S. S., 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).
- Renner, S. S., 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.
- Renner, S. S. 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
- Michalak, I., L-B. Zhang, and S. S.
Renner. 2010. Trans-Atlantic, trans-Pacific, and trans-Indian Ocean
dispersal events in the small Gondwanan Laurales family Hernandiaceae. J.
Biogeography, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02306.x
- Renner, S. S., J. S. Strijk, D.
Strasberg, and C. Thébaud. 2010. Biogeography of the Monimiaceae (Laurales):
A role for East Gondwana and long distance dispersal, but not West
Gondwana. J. Biogeography, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02319.x
- 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
- Schaefer, H., and S. S. Renner. 2010.
A gift from the New World? The West African crop Cucumeropsis mannii and the American Posadaea
sphaerocarpa
(Cucurbitaceae) are the same species. Systematic Botany
- Holstein, N., and S. S. Renner. Coccinia
(Cucurbitaceae) gains two new species from East Africa, three new
synonyms, and one new combination. (Kew Bulletin, preliminarily accepted 9
June 2010)
- Holstein, N., and S. S. Renner. Niche
conservatism? Biome switching within and between species of the African
genus Coccinia
(Cucurbitaceae). (in review).
- Filipowicz; N., and S. S.
Renner. The worldwide holoparasitic Apodanthaceae confidently placed in
the Cucurbitales by nuclear and mitochondrial gene trees. (in review).
- Duchen, P., and S. S. Renner. 2010.
The evolution of Cayaponia (Cucurbitaceae): Repeated shifts from bat to bee pollination
and long-distance dispersal to Africa 2-5 million years ago. American Journal of Botany 97(7):
00-00 (proofs).
- Sebastian, P., H. Schaefer, and S. S.
Renner. 2010. Darwin's Galapagos gourd: Providing new insights 175 years
after his visit. J. Biogeography
37: 975–980.
- 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): 704-708.
- 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 54(2):
553-560.
- 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.
- Oyama, R. K., M. V. Silber, and S. S. Renner.
2010. A specific insertion of a solo-LTR characterizes the Y chromosome of
Bryonia dioica (Cucurbitaceae).
BMC Research Notes 2010, 3: 166.
- Oyama, R. K., M. V. Silber, and
S. S. Renner. Comparative evolution of two male-linked genomic regions in
dioecious Bryonia dioica (Cucurbitaceae), a species with homomorphic sex
chromosomes (in review)
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. 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.
- 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 now has a position in China,
working in Camellia breeding.
- Lars
Nauheimer, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, March 2009- : Niche
evolution in the Asian Araceae genus Alocasia
- Juliana
Chacón, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Sep. 2009- : The
evolution of Alstroemeriaceae, a key element of the Austral floristic
realm
- Fernanda Carvalho, Ludwig Maximilians
University, Munich, April 2010- : The evolution of the papaya family,
Cariaceae
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. In the Renner lab, Hanno worked on Cucurbitaceae and Ctenoplectra bees. Between April 2008 and April 2010, he was
Marie Curie fellow with Prof. Vincent Savolainen at Imperial College and
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and currently he is a postdoc with Prof.
Charles Davis at Harvard University.
- 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 Andean Cactaceae. In the Renner lab, Boris
worked on pollinator-mediated evolution in Echinopsis (Trichocereeae). Since March 2010, Boris is a curator
at the Hannover botanical garden.
- 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 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-May 2010 present, Shixao Luo. Dr. Luo is a researcher at the
South China Botanical Garden in Guangzhou, and his research in the Renner
lab was funded by the Chinese Academy of Science. In the Renner lab, he
worked on the reproductive biology of Phyllanthaceae, 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)
- January 2010- present, Florian Jabbour. Dr. Jabbour received his Ph.D. at
the University of Paris, where he was working on flower evolution. In Munich, he is working on the
flower evolution in the Delphinium subclade Consolida.
- March 2010- present, Dr.
Ewa Siedlecka from Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Dr. Siedlecka
works on the expression of the Gy/gy candidate gene for sex
determination
in four species of 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
80638 Muenchen Deutschland
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: 16 June 2010
