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., Carelton, J., Magee, H., Nguyen, M.L., and Tanner, A.C. (2009) Maternal care and altered social phenotype in a recently collected stock of Astatotilapia burtoni cichlid fish. Integrative and Comparative Biology. doi: doi:10.1093/icb/icp085 pdf

Weiland, M., Jones, A., and Renn, S.C.P. (2009) Changing durations of southern resident killer whale (Orcinus orca) discrete calls between two periods spanning 28 yr. Marine Mammal Science. in press pdf

Machado, H.E., Pollen, A.A., Hofmann, H.A., and Renn, S.C.P. (2009) Interspecific profiling of gene expression refined by comparative genomic hybridization: A review and case study in African Cichlid fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology. doi:10.1093/icb/icp080 (advanced online) pdf

Lunt, D.H., and Renn, S.C.P. (2009) Copious copies keep out the cold. Heredity 5. pdf

Hulsey C.D., and Renn, S.C.P. (2009) Genomics and vertebrate adaptive radiation: a celeb ration of the first cichlid genome. Integrative and Comparative Biology. doi: doi:10.1093/icb/icp039 (advanced online) pdf

Aubin-Horth, N., and Renn, S.C.P. (2009) Genomic reaction norms: using integrative biology to understand molecular mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity. Molecular Ecology. 18:3763-3780. pdf

Renn, S.C.P, Aubin-Horth, N., Hofmann, H. (2008) Fish N' Chips: Functional Genomics of Social Plasticity in African Cichlid Fish. Journal of Experimental Biology 2111:3041-3056. pdf
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. pdf

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


submitted manuscripts:

Renn, S.C.P., Machado, H.E., Kulathinal, R., Soneji, K., Hofmann, H.A. (in review) The use of hCGH to detect sequence divergence among species: a proof-of-concept from four Drosophila species. submitted to BMC Genommics draft

Kunkle, R., Reilly C., and Renn, S.C.P (in review) Microsattelite Survey in Cichlid Fishes, a genomic resource for the cichlid community. submitted to Copia draft

Machado, H.E., Jui G., Joyce, D., Lunt, D., Renn, S.C.P. (in prep) Gene Duplication as Genomic Architecture of Adaptive Radiation. (submitted to Molecular Biology and Evolution) draft