Department of Biology

Suzy C.P. Renn

Fish 'N Chips: Comparative Functional Genomics in African Cichlid Fishes. The evolution of behavior.

Publications

Renn, S.C.P, Aubin-Horth, N., Hofmann, H. (2008 in press) Fish N' Chips: Functional Genomics of Social Plasticity in African Cichlid Fish. Journal of Experimental Biology. Exerpt from In JEB.

Lemos B, Landry CR, Fontanillas P, Renn SCP, Kulatinhal R, Brown KM, Hartl DL. 2007. Evolution of Genomic Expression. In Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics, edited by Pagel M & Pomiankowski A. Sinauer Press, Massachussets.
pdf_draft Full book available at Sinauer

Pollen, A., Dobberfuhl, A., Igulu, M.M., Scace, J., Renn, S.C.P., Shumway, C., Hofmann, H.A. (2007) Environmental Complexity and Social Organization Sculpt the Brain in Lake Tanganyikan Cichlid Fish. Brain Behavior and Evol.70:21-39. pdf

Salzburger*, W., Renn*, S.C.P., Steinke, D., Hofmann, H.A., Fernald, R.D., Braasch, I., Meyer, A., (2008) Annotation of Expressed Sequence Tags for the East African Cichlid Fish Species Astatotilapia burtoni and Evolutionary Analyses of cichlid ORFs. BMC Genomics. 9:96-110. pdf

Shafer, O., Helfrich-Förster, C., Renn, S.C.P. Taghert, P.H. (2006) Re-evaluation of Drosophila melanogaster’s neuronal circadian pacemakers reveals new neuronal classes. J. Comp. Neuro. 498:180-193.

Koski, L.B., Renn, S.C.P., Lang, B.F., Burger, G. (submitted) AutoFACT Version 3.1, Improvements in EST functional annotation. Bioinformatics

Renn*, S.C.P., Aubin-Horth*, N., and Hofmann, H.A. (2004)  Biologically Meaningful Expression Profiling across Species using Heterologous Hybridization to a cDNA microarray. BMC Genomics 5:42. pdf

Renn, S.C.P., Fraser, E.J., and Hofmann, H.A. (in prep) Masculinization of Gene Expression in Female Sex-Role Change without Sex Change in Astatotilapia burtoni Cichlid Fish.

Taghert, P.H., Roberts, M.E., Renn, S.C.P., and Jacobs, P.S. (2000) Metamophosis of Tangential Visual System Neurons in Drosophila Developmental Biology 222(2):471-485. pdf

Renn, S.C.P., Park, J., Roshbash, M., Hall, J.C., and Taghert, P.H. (1999) pdf Neuropeptide Mutation and Ablation of PDF Neurons Each Cause Serious Abnormalities of Behavioral Circadian Rhythms in Drosophila Cell 99:791-802. pdf

Renn, S.C.P., Armstrong, D., Yang, M.Y., Kaiser, K., and Taghert, P.H. (1999) Genetic Analysis of the Drosophila Ellipsoid Body Neuropil: Organization and Development of the Central Complex Journal of Neurobiology 41(2):189-207. pdf

Renn, S.C.P., Tomkinson, B., and Taghert, P.H. (1998) Purification, Characterization and Cloning of dTPP II from Drosophila melanogaster Journal of Biological Chemistry 273:19173-19182. pdf