Susanne S. Renner
We are working on the systematics,
biogeography, and evolution of flowering plants. A long standing
interest is the evolution of dioecy,
heterodichogamy, and sex
change, especially in the Cucurbitaceae and Cucurbitales,
clades with predominantly unisexual flowers. More recently, this
led to projects on the evolution of plant sex chromosomes, focusing
on 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
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. (Published
online Aug. 8, proofs)
- 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
- 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 (Published
online Aug. 24)
- 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.
- 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: 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
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).
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
- 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 AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
- 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).
LAURALES: TAXONOMY
- 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 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. 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, 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. 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. In press.
Phylogeography of the ancient Eurasian medicinal plant genus
Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae) inferred from nuclear and chloroplast
sequences. Taxon.
- Oyama, R. K., S. M. Volz, and S. S.
Renner. In press. A sex-linked SCAR marker in Bryonia dioica
(Cucurbitaceae), a dioecious species with XY sex-determination
and homomorphic sex chromosomes. J. Evol. Biol.
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
- 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 (online 20 July 2007).
Graduate 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 at Daegu University in South Korea.
- 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. See summary
of our DFG-funded project). Stefanie has accepted a position
as a teacher at a gymnasium (high school) in Munich.
- Natalie
Cusimano, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, May 2005-Oct.
2008: 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
studies on Oxalis and Viola. summary
of our DFG-funded project
- 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 of the Cucumis sativus clade
(Cucurbitaceae)
- Pablo Duchen, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich,
Oct 2007-: The evolution and biogeography of Cayaponia
(Cucurbitaceae).
- Li Yongquan, Oct 2007-25 April 2008. Yongquan received a
fellowship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is advised
jointly by Prof. Zhang Dianxiang from the South China Botanical
Garden and Susanne Renner. He works on the biogeography and sexual
strategies of Bridelia and Cleistanthus (Phyllanthacae).
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.
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: 5 October 2008
