Head of the unit of research DIMAR
(UMR 6540) Diversité,
évolution et écologie fonctionnelle marine
COM - Station Marine d'Endoume Rue de la Batterie
des Lions
F-13007 Marseille France
Voice :
+33 (0)4 9104 1614
e-mail :
jean-pierre.feral@univmed.fr
Born Thiais, France, 9 december 1947
French citizen Married, 1 child
University education:
M.Sc (zoology, animal physiology, structural and
metabolic biochemistry, biological oceanography), University Paris-6,
1974 DEA biological oceanography, University
Paris-6, 1975 PhD animal biology / biological
oceanography, highest distinction, University Paris-6, 1977
Doctorat ès Sciences Naturelles, highest distinction,
University Paris-6, 1985
Appointments:
1972-1976
Technician (part time) histology, cytology,
biochemistry, lab. Biologie des Invertébrés Marins, Muséum national
d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
1975-1977
Thèse de 3ème cycle / PhD, Station Biologique de Roscoff (Universty Paris-6)
1978-1979
Teaching of cell biology, University Paris-12, Créteil, CHU Henri Montdore
(TP-TD DEUG biology / medecine PCEM1)
1979-1984
Researcher (attaché de recherche) CNRS, lab. Biologie des Invertébrés
Marins, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
1984-1989
Researcher (chargé de recherche) CNRS, lab. Biologie des Invertébrés
Marins, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
1989-1990
Researcher (chargé de recherche) CNRS, Observatoire Océanologique de
Banyuls. Head of the group Molecular phylogeny
1990-1999
Researcher (directeur de recherche) CNRS, Observatoire Océanologique
de Banyuls. Head of the group Population biology and evolution of marine
invertebrates
2000-2003
Researcher (directeur de recherche) CNRS, Observatoire Océanologique
de Banyuls. Head of the group Dispersal, species structuring and
evolution
2004-to date
Researcher (directeur de
recherche) CNRS, Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Head of the unit of
research DIMAR - UMR 6540 Diversity,
evolution and marine functional ecology
Present scientific field
of work:
Research topics: study of the origin, the
maintenance and the change of biological diversity according
to the dispersal capacities of coastal benthic marine
invertebrates. General context: the crowded and dispersive marine
environment, with its steep physical gradients, favours the
existence of a planktonic larval stage for most species. The
attendant high fertility rates have important consequences
for selection differentials and dispersal and therefore for
the evolution of genetic structures. These features must be
taken into account in order to understand the origin and
maintenance of marine biodiversity and, in some cases, to
manage it. Methods are those 1) of population genetics which allow to
apprehend the processes of speciation in relation to the
characteristics of the mode of development and the
environmental constraints and 2) of molecular phylogeny
inferences which make possible to test speciation models and
to propose scenarii.
Direction of research
projects:
1979-1989:
associated curator Echinoderms, Museum national
d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris
1984-1987: Action
Incitative Programmée CNRS/INSU: Marine trophic webs -
Relationships macrofauna/sediments, impact of the
nutrition functions of detritivorous invertebrates on
the littoral and deep sedimentary ecosystems.
1985-1987:
Inventory of the fauna [Echinodermata, Crustacea:
Decapoda] of the Gulf of Aqaba (MNHN/MRE-MOFMO)
1988-1992:
Adaptation of nutrition and reproduction functions of
antarctic and subantarctic marine invertebrates (Mission
de recherche des Territoires des Terres Australes et
Antarctiques françaises - TAAF)
1993-1997: Role of
speciation and importance of reproductive strategies on
the origin and maintenance of biodiversity in the
antarctic and subantarctic zones (Institut Français pour
la Recherche et la Technologie Polaires - IFRTP, program
195)
1996-1997:
Biodiversity and biosystematics (action concertée du
ministère de la recherche ACCSV-7): Origin and
maintenance of biodiversity in the genus
Echinocardium.
1996-1999: Genetic
differentiation of the brooding cosmopolitan ophiuroid
Amphipholis squamata (LEA Sciences de la mer/
European associated laboratory Marine sciences)
1996-1998:
Biodiversity, anthropic action and climatic change /
marine benthos population biology in Kerguelen Islands
(GDRE Polaire - CNRS)
1998-2002:
Dispersal capacity, genetic stucturing and biodiversity
of the coastal marine invertebrates of the Austral Ocean
(IFRTP, program 195)
1999-2000:
Exploration of coastal marine biodiversity in Terre
Adélie (IFRTP, program 345)
2001-2002: Origine,
distribution and maintenance of the morphological and
genetic diversity of the species complexe
Echinocardium (echinoids, spatangoids) in the
Mediterranean. (IFB)
2006-2010:
Origine et évolution de la faune benthique antarctique:
diversité génétique et divergence moléculaire entre
espèces congénériques d’échinoides d’Antarctiques et
d’Amérique du Sud. (ECOS-CONICYT C06B02) Coresponsable
Universidad Chile : Pr. E. Poulin
2007-2009:
Origin and evolution of the
Antarctic benthic marine fauna: Genetic diversity and
molecular divergence between congeneric species of
echinoids from Antarctica and South America. (CAML,
Census of Antarctic Marine Life - IPY)
Research management:
1991-to date:
Organisation and scientific in charge for 15 cruises in
Kerguelen Islands and in Antarctic (Terre Adélie).
1992-1995: Member
of the scientific committee of the "common service of
systematics" (DNA / RNA sequencing)
1994-1996:
Secretary of the steering committee of the French marine
diversity network
1994-1999: Member
of the scientific committee of the Cerbère-Banyuls
marine reserve
1996-2000: Head of
the French marine diversity network: Since its creation
in 1994, this network has helped to organise around
shared themes a community of scientists specialised in
subjects as different as molecular biology, population
genetics, systematics, marine ecology, halieutics and
oceanography. The network is jointly supported by
IFREMER and CNRS. The supported themes are :
Inventories, monitoring and data basing, genetics and
marine biodiversity, biodiversity of renewable marine
resources and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
2002-2005: Member
of the advisory committee of MARBENA :
Creating a long term infrastructure for marine
biodiversity research in the European Economic area and
the Newly Ascending States [EC 5th framework
program]
2002-to date:
Member of the scientific committee of IFB (French
Institute for Biodiversity)
2004-to date: Member of
the sterring committee of the European Network of
Excellence MARBEF
(Marine Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning) [EC 6th
framework program]
2005-2007: membre du comité d'évaluation de l'AAP
Biodiversité de l'ANR (président en 2006 et 2007)
2005-to date: leader of the MARBEF Key area genetics -
project
GBIRM
2006-to date: membre du
Comité Consultatif Régional de la Mer - CCRM-PACA
2006-to date: membre du
comité scientifique de OCEANOMED
2007-to date:
vice-président de la commission scientifique de
l'Institut Français de la Biodiversité IFB
Publications
editor or co-editor of
8 books, about 100 publications in national and
international journals (10 invited chapters) and numerous
research reports. (Go to the
list)
Selected scientific
publications
Féral (J.-P.), Ferrand
(J.-G.) & Guille (A.), 1990 - Macrobenthic
physiological responses to environmental
fluctuations : the reproductive cycle and enzymatic
polymorphism of a eurybathic sea-urchin on the
northwestern Mediterranean continental shelf an.
Continental Shelf Res., 100: 1147-1155
Schatt (P.) & Féral
(J.-P.), 1991 - The brooding cycle of
Abatus cordatus (Echinodermata: Spatangoida) at
Kerguelen Islands. Polar Biol.,
11: 283-292 (full
text PDF)
Poulin (É.) & Féral
(J.-P.), 1995 - Pattern of spatial
distribution of a brood-protecting schizasterid
echinoid, Abatus cordatus, endemic to the
Kerguelen Islands. Mar.
Ecol. Prog. Ser., 118: 179-186 (full
text
PDFF)
Poulin É. & J.-P. Féral
1996 - Why are there so many species of brooding
antarctic
echinoids ?
Evolution, 50: 820-830 (full
text
PDF)
Schatt (P.) & Féral
(J.-P.), 1996 - Complete direct development
of Abatus cordatus , a brooding schizasterid
(Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from Kerguelen, with
description of 'perigastrulation', a hypothetical
new mode of gastrulation.
Biol. Bull. (Woods Hole),
190: 24-44 (full text
PDF)
Lozano (J.-C.),
Schatt (P.), Marquès (F.), Peaucellier (G.), Fort
(P.), Féral (J.-P.), Genevière (A.-M.), and Picard
(A.) 1998 - A presumptive developmental role
for a sea urchin Cyclin B splice variant. J. Cell Biol. 140: 283-293 (full text
PDFF)
Poulin É., S.v.
Boletzky & J.-P. Féral 2001 - Combined
ecological factors permit
classification of developmental patterns in benthic
marine invertebrates: a discussion note.
J. exp.
Mar. Biol. Ecol.257: 109-115 (full
text
PDF)
Féral (J.-P.)
2002 - How useful are the genetic markers in
attempts to understand and manage marine
biodiversity.
J. exp.
Mar. Biol. Ecol.268: 121-145 (full
text
PDFF)
- Evolutionary versus
ecological success of
developmental modes in coastal Antarctic benthic
invertebrates. Trends Ecol. Evol. 17:
218-222 (full text
PDFF)
Rousset (V.), Rouse (G.W.), Féral
(J.-P.), Desbruyères (D.) & Pleijel (F.) 2003
- Molecular and morphological evidence of
Alvinellidae relationships (Terebelliformia,
Polychaeta, Annelida).
Zool. Scripta32: 185-197 (full text
PDF)
Chenuil (A.),
Gault (A.) & Féral (J.-P.) 2004
- Paternity analysis in Abatus nimrodi, a
brooding antarctic sea urchin. A pilot note.
Polar Biol., 27: 177-182 (full text
PDFF
Le Gac (M.), Féral (J.-P.) ,
Veyret (M.) & Chenuil (A.) 2004 -
Identification of allopatric clades in the
cosmopolitan species complex of the brittle star
Amphipholis squamata. The end of a paradox ? Mar.
Ecol. Prog. Ser. , 278: 171-178 (full text
PDF)
Gérard K., C. Roby, N. Chevalier, B. Thomassin, A.
Chenuil & J.-P. Féral – soumis – What can molecular
markers tell us about Crown-of-Thorns starfish?
First insights of a global phylogeography of the
Acanthasterr
Boissin E., J.-P. Féral & A. Chenuil – soumis -
Defining reproductively isolated units in a cryptic
and syntopic species complex using mitochondrial and
nuclear markers: the brooding brittle star
Amphipholis squamata (Ophiuroidea) Mol. Ecol.
Chenuil A., C. Rocher, E. Egéa, H. Touzet & J.-P.
Féral – soumis – Does hybridization stimulate
evolution rate acceleration by slowing concerted
evolution in echinoderms ? A study based on the
secondary structure of the rDNA D8 divergent domain.
Gérard K., N. Bierne, P. Borsa, A. Chenuil & J.-P.
Féral – soumis- Revisiting the mitochondrial
phylogeography of Southern Hemisphere Mytilus
spp mussels. MEPS
Organisation of 6
colloquiums (1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2001,
2004)
Member
of the editorial committee of: "From Marine Ecology to
Developmental Biology - In Honour of Pierre Tardent
(1927-1997)"
1990-to
date: Teaching activity (annual courses, M.Sc and PhD
level): Venimous function in echinoderms, Potentially
dangerous marine animals, Antarctic benthos, Direct
development and genetic structure, Modes of development
and speciation, Marine biodiversity, Subaquatic video
1990-to
date: scientific training of 10 VAT (volontaires à
l'aide technique) for one year stays in Kerguelen
1992-to
date: supervisor of 25 M.Sc and PhD students
Organisation of a course on microcomputer and phylogeny,
(CNRS: continuing education) Banyuls-sur-mer, 1991
Organisation of a training course on micro-arrays and
bio-informatique, (CNRS: continuing education)
Banyuls-sur-mer, 2001-2002
Organisation of 6 courses for scientific diving (CNRS:
continuing education), Banyuls-sur-mer,
1991-1993-1995-1997-1999-2001-2003
Director of a European TMR practical training course
(March 1998) : Concepts and methods for studying
marine biodiversity, from gene to ecosystem.
Consultancy for UNEP (regional activity centre for
specially protected areas / Mediterranean Action Plan):
Indicators of marine and coastal biodiversity for the
Mediterranean sea.
1998-to date: Member [chairman since 2001] of the
European Committee for Scientific Diving (ESF)
1999-to date: Member of the French Committee for
Scientific Diving "CNPS" (CNRS/INSU: Institut des
Sciences de l'Univers and IFRTP)
(brochure
PDF)
2000-to date: Member of the French national network of
marine stations (RNSM) (Europe)
2002-to date: Member of the regional scientific
committee of the "Patrimoine naturel du
Languedoc-Roussillon - domaine aquatique : eaux marines
et eaux douces"
2002-to
date: Member of the scientific committee of the program
"Suivi-Erika" (monitoring program)
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