Susanne
S. Renner
We are working on the systematics,
biogeography, and evolution of 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,
and to work on changes in genome size 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@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
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your research and educational background.
Selected publications, sorted by topics and clades
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION/ ELECTRONIC TAXONOMIC
PUBLISHING
- 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.
- Penev, L., Kress, W. J., Knapp, S., Li, D-Z., and S. S. Renner. 2010. Fast, linked, and open – the
future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys 1: 1–14, doi:
10.3897/phytokeys.1.642
MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
- Piednoel, M., A.
J. Aberer, G. M. Schneeweiss,
J. Macas, P. Novak, H. Gundlach,
E. M. Temsch, S. S. Renner. Next generation
sequencing reveals the impact of LTR retrotransposons
on genome dynamics in a clade of increasingly
- Renner, S. S., and S. Bellot. 2012. Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes:
fungi-to-plant and plant-to-plant transfers of organellar
DNA. Pp. 00-00 in R. Bock & V. Knoop, eds., Genomics of Chloroplasts and Mitochondria In:
Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration (Springer). Proofs available
upon request.
- 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.
- 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.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
- Luo, S., H.-J. Esser, D. Zhang, and S. S. Renner. 2011. Nuclear ITS
sequences help disentangle Phyllanthus reticulatus (Phyllanthaceae), an Asian species not occurring in
Africa, but introduced to Jamaica. Systematic
Botany 36(1): 99-104.
- Luo, S., D. Zhang, S. S. Renner. 2006. Duodichogamy and androdioecy
in the Chinese Phyllanthaceae Bridelia tomentosa. Am. J. Bot. 94(2): 260-265.
- Gu, L., Z. Luo, D.
Zhang, S. S. Renner. 2010 Passerine pollination of Rhodoleia championii
(Hamamelidaceae) in subtropical China. Biotropica
42(3): 336–341.
- 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.
- 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, 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 // DIVERSIFICATION ANALYSES //
MACRO-EVOLUTION
· Ricklefs, R. E., and S. S. Renner. 2012. Global correlations in tropical tree species richness and abundance
reject neutrality. Science
335: 464-467.
- Cusimano, N., and S. S. Renner. 2010. Slowdowns in
diversification rates from real phylogenies may not be real. Systematic Biology 59(4): 458-464.
- Cusimano, N., T. Stadler, and
S. S. Renner. 2012. A new method for handling missing species in
diversification analysis applicable to randomly or non-randomly sampled
phylogenies. Systematic Biology, in press
- 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, in press
- Renner, S. S. 2010. Biogeographic
insights from a short-lived Paleocene island in the Ninetyeast
Ridge. Journal
of Biogeography 37(7): 1177-1178.
- 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. 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. http://blog.1800flowers.com/international/renner-dispersal-et/
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
·
Renner, S. S.
2011. Living fossil younger than thought. Science
334: 766-767. Invited commentary on N. S. Nagalingum
et al., Science 334,
2011.
·
Mao, K., Milne, R. I., Zhang, L., Peng, Y., Liu,
J., Thomas, P., Mill, R. R. and S. S. Renner. The
distribution of living Cupressaceae reflects the
breakup
of Pangea (in review).
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. International Journal of Plant Science 164(5
Suppl.): S383-S392.
- Tosaki, Y., S. S. Renner, and H. Takahashi. 2001.
Pollination of Sarcandra glabra (Chloranthaceae)
in natural populations in Japan. Journal of Plant Research 114: 423-427 (pdf).
MONOCOTS
·
Chacon, J., M. Baeza, and S. S. Renner. Chromosome restructuring in Alstroemeria (Alstroemeriaceae) inferred from highly
polymorphic ribosomal DNA analyzed
in a phylogenetic framework. In review.
·
Chacon, J., M. Camargo de Assis, A. W. Meerow, and S. S. Renner.
From east Gondwana to Central America: The
historical journey of the Alstroemeriaceae. In
review.
- Nauheimer, L., P. C. Boyce, and S. S. Renner. 2012. Giant
taro and its relatives: A phylogeny of the large genus Alocasia
(Araceae) sheds light on Miocene floristic
exchange in the Malesian region. Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution, online early 12 Jan.
- Nauheimer, L., D. Metzler, and S. S. Renner. Global history of the ancient monocot family Araceae inferred with models accounting for past
continental positions and previous ranges based on fossils (in review)
- Cusimano, N., A.
Sousa, and S. S. Renner. 2012. Maximum likelihood inference implies
a high, not a low, ancestral haploid chromosome number in the Araceae, with a critique of the bias introduced by “x”. Annals of Botany, online
early 30 Dec. 2011
- 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. Journal
of Biogeography 37(7): 1214-1226.
- 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. Journal
of Biogeography 37(7): 1227-1238.
- 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).
- Renner, S. S. 2011. Laurales.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Nature Publishing Group, DOI:
10.1002/9780470015902.a0003695.pub2
- 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.)
RANUNCULALES
BRASSICALES
·
Carvalho, F., and S. S.
Renner. A dated phylogeny of the papaya family (Caricaceae) reveals the crop’s closest relatives and
the family’s biogeographic history. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in review.
·
Carvalho, F., and S.
S. Renner. The
phylogeny of the Cariaceae.
Pp. 000-000 in Genetics and genomics of papaya, eds. R. Ming and P. Moore, Springer Verlag.
SOLANALES
(Cuba)
·
Brunfelsia (Solanaceae):
A genus evenly divided between South America and radiations on Cuba and other
Antillean Islands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in review.
·
Filipowicz, N., M. H. Nee, and S.
S. Renner. A
new species of Brunfelsia (Solanaceae) from the Bolivian and Argentinean Andes. In review.
· Filipowicz, N., M. H. Nee, and S. S.
Renner. Description and molecular diagnosis of a
new species of Brunfelsia (Solanaceae)
from the Bolivian and Argentinean Andes. Phytokeys,
accepted provided revision
CUCURBITALES:
EVOLUTION (esp. of pollination modes and sex chromosomes) and CLASSIFICATION
- Schaefer, H., and S. S. Renner. 2011. Cucurbitaceae. Pp. 112-174 in K. Kubitzki,
ed., Families and Genera of Flowering Plants, Vol. 10. Springer Verlag, Berlin. (pdf
available upon request)
- The new tribal classification is formalized in
this paper:
- Schaefer, H., and S. S. Renner. 2011. Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd
family (Cucurbitaceae). Taxon
60(1): 122-138.
- Holstein, N., and S. S. Renner. 2011. A dated
phylogeny and collection records reveal repeated biome shifts in the
African genus Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae).
BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 28.
- Holstein, N., and S. S. Renner. 2010. Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae)
gains two new species from East Africa, three new synonyms, and one new
combination. Kew Bulletin 65: 435-441.
·
Holstein, N., and S. S. Renner. 2011. Coccinia intermedia — a new Cucurbitaceae
species from West Africa.
Phytokeys 7: 26-36.
- 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 35(3): 534-540.
- Filipowicz, N., and S. S. Renner. 2010. The worldwide holoparasitic Apodanthaceae
confidently placed in the Cucurbitales by
nuclear and mitochondrial gene trees. BMC
Evolutionary Biology 10: 219
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/219
- 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): 1129–1141.
- 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., 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- for character evolution and classification. Mol. Phyl. Evol. 44. 553-577.
Kocyan, A., L-B. Zhang, H. Schaefer, and S. S.
Renner. 2007. A multi-locus chloroplast phylogeny for the Cucurbitaceae and its implications
- Sebastian, P. M., H. Schaefer, I. R. H. Telford,
and S. S. Renner. 2010. Cucumber and melon have their wild progenitors in
India, and the sister species of Cucumis melo is from Australia. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences 107(32): 14269–14273.
- Telford, I. R. H., P. M. Sebastian, J. J. Bruhl, and S. S. Renner. 2011. Cucumis
(Cucurbitaceae) in Australia and eastern Malesia, including newly recognized species and the
sister species to C. melo.
Systematic Botany
36: 376-389.
- Telford, I. R. H., H. Schaefer, W. Greuter, and S. S. Renner. 2011. A new Australian species of Luffa
(Cucurbitaceae) and typification
of two Australian Cucumis names, all based
on specimens collected by Ferdinand Mueller in 1856. PhytoKeys
4: 21-29. Taken
up by http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110727141319.htm.
·
Telford, I. R.
H., Sebastian, P., P. J. de Lange, Bruhl, J. J., and
S. S. Renner. 2012. Morphological and molecular data reveal three rather than
one species of Sicyos (Cucurbitaceae) in Australia, New
Zealand and the Islands of the South West Pacific. Australian Journal of
Botany.
·
Sebastian, P., H. Schaefer, R. Lira, I. R. H.
Telford, and S. S. Renner. 2012. Radiation following long-distance dispersal:
The contributions of time, opportunity, and diaspore
morphology in Sicyos (Cucurbitaceae). J.
Biogeography, in press
- 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
- 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.
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. 2006. 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., and R. Goldenberg. 2011. A
new name and a new synonym in Miconia (Melastomataceae). Phytokeys 3: 35-37.
- 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. Botanical
Journal of the Linnean Society 133(3): 303-326.
- 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
- Ming, R., A. Bendahmane,
and S. S. Renner. 2011. Sex chromosomes in land plants. Annual
Review of Plant Biology 62: 485-514.
- 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.
- 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. (7 pages)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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:
- Renner, S. S., and R. E. Ricklefs.
1995. Dioecy and its correlates in the flowering
plants. Am. J. Bot. 82(5): 596-606.
- Ricklefs, R. E., and S. S. Renner. 1994. Species
richness within families of flowering plants. Evolution 48(5): 1619-1636.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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 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. 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.
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-Sep 2009: The evolution of the Arum clade: Intron evolution, biogeography, and diversification.
- Norbert Holstein, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Sep
2007-March 2012: The evolution of dimorphic sex chromosomes in Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae) and a monograph of the genus.
- Patrizia Sebastian, Ludwig Maximilians
University, Munich, May 2008-Dec. 2011: 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-March 2012: Evolution of the Asian aroid genus Alocasia and biogeography of the entire Araceae family
- Juliana
Chacon, Ludwig Maximilians University,
Munich, Sep. 2009- Sep. 2012: The evolution of Alstroemeriaceae
and their sister group, Colchicaceae
- Fernanda Carvalho,
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, April 2010- : The evolution of the papaya family, Caricaceae
- Aretuza Sousa, Ludwig Maximilians
University, Munich, Sep. 2010- : Inferring karyotype evolution in angiosperm, focusing on polyploidy
and sex chromosomes
- Sidonie Bellot,
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Nov. 2010- : Using next-generation-sequencing to study organelle
genomes in the endoparasite family Apodanthaceae
Past and present postdoctoral associates
- Nov 2001-31 May 2002, Aruna
Weerasooriya, 2010: Research
Scientist, The University of Mississippi.
- Jun 2002-31 May 2003, Libing Zhang, 2010: Assistant Curator, Missouri Botanical Garden
- Mar 2004-Jan 2005, Livia
Wanntorp, 2010: Researcher, Swedish Museum of Natural History,
Department of Phanerogamic Botany
- Jun 2003-31 May 2007, Alexander Kocyan, 2010: Researcher at the Biological Institute
of the University of Berlin-Potsdam
- Sep 2004-30 Apr 2008, Hanno Schaefer. 2010: Postdoctoral
fellow with Prof. Charles Davis, OEB, Harvard
- Nov 2004-1 Mar 2010, Boris O. Schlumpberger.
2010: Curator at the Herrenhäuser Gardens,
Hannover
- Oct 2006-Aug 2010, Ryan Oyama.
2010: Researcher with Pioneer-Dupont, Kauai,
Hawaii
- May 2009-May 2010, Shixiao Luo. 2010:
Researcher, South China Botanical Garden, Guangzhou
- Sep 2009-present, Natalie Cusimano.
Dr. Cusimano obtained her Ph.D. at the
University of Munich, and is currently working on karyotype
evolution in the Araceae
- May 2009- June 2011, Natalia Filipowicz.
Dr. Filipowicz is an Assistant Professor at the
Medical University of Gdansk, Poland. In the Renner lab, she was working
on the economically important groups Brunfelsia
(Solanaceae) and Luffa
(Cucurbitaceae)
- Jan 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 biogeography and flower evolution in the Delphinieae (Ranunculaceae).
- Mar 2010- Mar 2011, Ewa Siedlecka
from Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Dr. Siedlecka
works on the expression of Gy/gy candidate genes
for sex determination
- Jan 2011- present, Mathieu Piednoel.
Dr. Piednoel received his Ph.D. at the
University of Paris, where he worked on transposons
in deep-sea vent organisms. In Munich, he is carrying out a comparative
analysis of repetitive DNA in Orobanchaceae of
different life histories and ploidy levels,
using nine 454-sequenced genomes.
- Mar – Jul 2011, Jelena
Aleksic, Institute of Molecular Genetics and
Genetic Engineering, Laboratory for Plant Molecular Biology, Belgrade,
Serbia. Jelena obtained her Ph.D. in Vienna (“Genetic
structure of natural populations of Serbian spruce”), and in
the Renner lab she is working on the phylogeny and biogeography of the
genus Picea.
- Oct. 2011 –present, Juan Carlos Villarreal. Dr. Villarreal
received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in Storrs, where he
worked with Bernard Goffinet on hornworts. In
Munich, he is continuing to focus on hornwort evolution and biogeography
Education & Position
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
Botanische Staatsanstalten
Menzinger Str. 67
80638 Munich, Germany
My 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: 6 February 2012
