Jean-François RENNO
I am a population geneticist. I completed my thesis in French Guyana for the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM), on phylogeography and population genetics of the Leporinus fish, then worked on pearl millet (Pennisetum) domestication in Niger at the beginning of my career with ORSTOM (now IRD). Currently my research focuses on the phenomena and mechanisms explaining fish speciation in the Amazon basin, with applications in aquaculture. I am co-founder of the Research Network on Amazon Ichthyofauna (RIIA), Director of the LMI "Evolution and Domestication of Amazonian Ichthyofauna" (LMI EDIA http://www.riiaamazonia.org/), Director of Research at IRD and honorary Professor at the National University of San Marcos in Lima (Peru).
My research is carried out in collaboration with our partners from Bolivia (Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba ; Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz ; Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz), Peru (Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos ; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal, Lima), Colombia (SINCHI : Instituto Amazonica de Investigaciones Cientificas), Brésil (INPA -Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus and Germany (University of Trier).
About 30 hours annually in Master’s degree and Doctorate at the l’Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Peru, on the theme: “Populations Genetics”
Director of the LMI EDIA.
The originality of EDIA’ research program rests mainly on the implementation of a multidisciplinary research program dedicated to the study of evolution of Amazonian fish species and the development of sustainable fish farming in Amazonia, a region that is still relatively little impacted by human activities despite its fast demographic growth and where fish farming is still in its infancy. The proposed research program constitutes an integrated approach going from a better understanding of the evolution of species and populations in nature all the way to their domestication. It will allow understanding the interactions between genetic variation and life history traits in relation with environmental characteristics in both natural and experimental conditions. The researches developed in the LMI will also produce useful knowledge for fishery management and species conservation.
My Papers
2018
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. 2018. “Use Of An Acoustic Telemetry Array For Fine Scale Fish Behaviour Assessment Of Captive Paiche, Arapaima Gigas, Breeders”. Aquaculture Research 49: 2296-2304. doi:doi.org/10.1111/are.13692. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/are.13692.
Use of an acoustic telemetry array for fine scale fish behaviour assessment of captive Paiche.pdf (754.39 KB) -
. 2018. “Age And Growth Of The Amazonian Migratory Catfish Brachyplatystoma Rousseauxii In The Madeira River Basin Before The Construction Of Dams”. Neotropical Ichthyology 16 (1): e170130, 2018. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20170130. Age and growth of the Amazonian migratory catfish Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii.pdf (2.82 MB)
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. 2018. “Metabarcoding By Capture Using A Single Coi Probe (Mcsp) To Identify And Quantify Fish Species In Plankton Swarms”. Plos One 13: e0202976. doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202976. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202976. Metabarcoding by capture using a single COI probe (MCSP).pdf (2.3 MB)
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. 2018. Peces De Consumo De La Amazonía Peruana. Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP), Iquitos, Perú. PECES DE CONSUMO DE LA AMAZONIA PERUANA (WEB).pdf (12.49 MB)
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. 2018. “Use Of An Acoustic Telemetry Array For Fine Scale Fish Behaviour Assessment Of Captive Paiche, Arapaima Gigas, Breeders”. Aquaculture Research 49 (6): 2296 - 2304. doi:10.1111/are.2018.49.issue-610.1111/are.13692. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/are.2018.49.issue-6.
2017
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. 2017. “Dna Metabarcoding Of Amazonian Ichthyoplankton Swarms”. Plosone Jan 17;12 (1): :e0170009. DNA metabarcoding of Amazonian ichthyoplankton swarms.pdf (1.17 MB)
2016
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. 2016. “Trans-Amazonian Natal Homing In Giant Catfish”. Journal Of Applied Ecology 53: 1511-1520. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12665. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12665. Trans-Amazonian natal homing in giant catfish.pdf (1.07 MB)
2015
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. 2015. “Using Barcoding Of Larvae For Investigating The Breeding Seasons Of Pimelodid Catfishes From The Marañon, Napo And Ucayali Rivers In The Peruvian Amazon”. Journal Of Applied Ichthyology 31: 40–51. doi:10.1111/jai.12987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jai.12987.
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. 2015. “Opinion Paper: How Vulnerable Are Amazonian Freshwater Fishes To Ongoing Climate Change?”. Journal Of Applied Ichthytology 31: 4-9.
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. 2015. “Movement Patterns And Home Range Of Wild And Re-Stocked Arapaima Gigas (Schinz, 1822) Monitored By Radio-Telemetry In Lake Imiria, Peru”. Journal Of Applied Ichthyology 31: 10–18. doi:10.1111/jai.12972. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jai.12972.