Prospects for Innovative Immunostimulants for Aquaculture

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on the topic of “Prospects For Innovative Immunostimulants for Aquaculture” is being launched by the Animals Journal. Fish and shellfish aquaculture fence infectious diseases, impacting productivity and health. Even some pathogens can be transmitted from animals to humans. Therefore, innovative measures based on immune system stimulation have been proposed as an alternative to antibiotics and other preventive and therapeutic options. However, novel immunostimulants in aquaculture raise several challenges, including costs, availability, biosafety, functionality, and massive application. This Special Issue aims to gather cutting-edge research and developments on immunostimulants applied to aquatic organisms. This compilation will be composed of, but not limited to, R&D on recombinant immunostimulants, plant-derived immunostimulatory molecules, microbial-based immunostimulants, nutritional immunology, vaccines, probiotics, prebiotics, posbiotics, and paraposbiotics, which can be complemented with research on immune-related mechanisms at molecular, cellular, tissue, organ, and organism levels, including complement, cytokines, interferons, antimicrobial peptides, immunoglobulins, pattern recognition receptors, immune cells, mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues (MALTs), host–pathogen interactions, etc. Reviews, full-length articles, and short communications containing original and applied research on the recent advances in immunostimulants for fish and shellfish aquaculture will be welcome.

Dr. Elizabeth Monreal-Escalante
Dr. Carlos Angulo
Dr. Yuniel Méndez-Martínez
Guest Editors

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