Tanya Renner

Assistant Professor of Entomology

Tanya Renner

Research Summary

Evolution of chemical and structural defense. Molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics, and transcriptomics. Origins and evolution of carnivorous plants.

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Genes Metabolism Coleoptera Phylogeny History Carnivorous Plants Genome Chemical Defenses Direction Compound Formic Acid Pheromones Beetle Chemical Digestion Carabidae Pollination Harpalus Population Genetics Proteins Biosynthesis Caryophyllales Nutrients Transcription Factors Digestive System Alternative Splicing

Most Recent Publications

The digestive systems of carnivorous plants

Matthias Freund, Dorothea Graus, Andreas Fleischmann, Kadeem J. Gilbert, Qianshi Lin, Tanya Renner, Christian Stigloher, Victor A. Albert, Rainer Hedrich, Kenji Fukushima, 2022, Plant Physiology on p. 44-59

Genomic insights into the evolution of plant chemical defense

Chloe P. Drummond, Tanya Renner, 2022, Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Acid or base? How do plants regulate the ecology of their phylloplane?

Kadeem J. Gilbert, Tanya Renner, 2021, AoB PLANTS

Primary Metabolism co-Opted for Defensive Chemical Production in the Carabid Beetle, Harpalus pensylvanicus

Adam M. Rork, Sihang Xu, Athula Attygalle, Tanya Renner, 2021, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 334-349

Author Correction: Primary Metabolism Co-Opted for Defensive Chemical Production in the Carabid Beetle, Harpalus pensylvanicus (Journal of Chemical Ecology, (2021), 47, 3, (334-349), 10.1007/s10886-021-01253-2)

Adam M. Rork, Sihang Xu, Athula Attygalle, Tanya Renner, 2021, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 350

Aquatic angiosperm ambiguities answered

Victor A. Albert, Tanya Renner, 2020, Nature Plants on p. 181-183

The evolution of the mammalian ABCA6-like genes: Analysis of phylogenetic, expression, and population genetic data reveals complex evolutionary histories

Martin W. Breuss, Allen Mamerto, Tanya Renner, Elizabeth R. Waters, 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution on p. 2093-2106

Pygidial glands of Harpalus pensylvanicus (Coleoptera: Carabidae) contain resilin-rich structures

Adam M. Rork, István Mikó, Tanya Renner, 2019, International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology on p. 19-25

Carabidae Semiochemistry: Current and Future Directions

Adam M. Rork, Tanya Renner, 2018, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 1069-1083

Patterns of alternative splicing vary between species during heat stress

Sumetha Kannan, Gillian Halter, Tanya Renner, Elizabeth R. Waters, 2018, AoB PLANTS

Most-Cited Papers

Long-read sequencing uncovers the adaptive topography of a carnivorous plant genome

Tianying Lan, Tanya Renner, Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Kimberly M. Farr, Tien Hao Chang, Sergio Alan Cervantes-Pérez, Chunfang Zheng, David Sankoff, Haibao Tang, Rikky W. Purbojati, Alexander Putra, Daniela I. Drautz-Moses, Stephan C. Schuster, Luis Herrera-Estrella, Victor A. Albert, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. E4435-E4441

Independent co-option of a tailed bacteriophage into a killing complex in Pseudomonas

Kevin L. Hockett, Tanya Renner, David A. Baltrus, 2015, mBio on p. 11

Inside the trap: Gland morphologies, digestive enzymes, and the evolution of plant carnivory in the Caryophyllales

Tanya Renner, Chelsea D. Specht, 2013, Current Opinion in Plant Biology on p. 436-442

Patterns of alternative splicing vary between species during heat stress

Sumetha Kannan, Gillian Halter, Tanya Renner, Elizabeth R. Waters, 2018, AoB PLANTS

Spiraling into history: a molecular phylogeny and investigation of biogeographic origins and floral evolution for the genus costus

Shayla Salzman, Heather E. Driscoll, Tanya Renner, Thiago André, Stacy Shen, Chelsea D. Specht, 2015, Systematic Botany on p. 104-115

Biochemistry of prey digestion and nutrient absorption

Ildiko Matusikova, Andrej Pavlovic, Tanya Renner, 2018, CARNIVOROUS PLANTS: PHYSIOLOGY, ECOLOGY, AND EVOLUTION on p. 207-220

Carabidae Semiochemistry: Current and Future Directions

Adam M. Rork, Tanya Renner, 2018, Journal of Chemical Ecology on p. 1069-1083

Aquatic angiosperm ambiguities answered

Victor A. Albert, Tanya Renner, 2020, Nature Plants on p. 181-183

Carnivorous plant genomes

Tanya Renner, Tianying Lan, Kimberly Farr, Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Luis Herrera-Estrella, Stephan Schuster, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Kenji Fukushima, Victor Albert, 2018, CARNIVOROUS PLANTS: PHYSIOLOGY, ECOLOGY, AND EVOLUTION on p. 135-153

Molecular characterization and evolution of carnivorous sundew (Drosera rotundifolia L.) class V β-1,3-glucanase

Jaroslav Michalko, Tanya Renner, Patrik Mészáros, Peter Socha, Jana Moravčíková, Alžbeta Blehová, Jana Libantová, Zuzana Polóniová, Ildikó Matušíková, 2017, Planta on p. 77-91

News Articles Featuring Tanya Renner

Nov 01, 2022

This Carnivorous Plant Has a Rain-Powered Trap

A biological “spring” helps a pitcher plant fling insects to their doom

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Mar 13, 2022

How in the World Did We Get Venus Flytraps?

Scientists are closing in on one of botany’s great riddles.

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Mar 09, 2022

How Carnivorous Plants Evolved

Botanists are beginning to trace the origins of their gruesome appetites

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Mar 02, 2022

How plants turned predator

Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered. Molecular biology is helping botanists trace the origins of their predatory ways.

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Apr 21, 2021

Little crop of horrors

An international team of researchers has received a grant from the Human Frontier Science Program to investigate how carnivory-related genes, such as those involved in digestion, could help crops not only avoid pests, but also thrive in low-nutrient environments.

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Oct 14, 2020

Grant supports study of how carnivorous plants repurpose genes to digest prey

A Penn State researcher has received funding to examine the genetic mechanisms that enable carnivorous plants to repurpose defense proteins to digest their insect prey.

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Feb 26, 2019

Material protecting beetle could have medical, engineering applications

Ground beetles spray chemical weapons at their enemies. To protect themselves from their own toxins, carabid beetles rely on a unique compound -- a compound new research suggests could have biomedical and bioengineering applications.

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