Sustainable Aquaculture: A Functional Genomic Perspective
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 69
Special Issue Editors
2. The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK
Interests: transcriptomics; epigenomics; genomics; genomic selection; proteomics; metabolomics; sustainable aquaculture
2. The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, UK
Interests: transcriptomics; epigenomics; genomics; genomic selection; proteomics; metabolomics; sustainable aquaculture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquaculture is a steadily growing human food production industry, contributing to sustaining livelihoods as well as food and nutritional security. Despite this steady growth, the industry faces several challenges that significantly impact the sustainability of aquacultural output in the different production systems and environments. Some of these challenges include infectious diseases, parasites, environmental stressors such as fluctuations in temperature, salinity, pH, and oxygen, and ammonia accumulation. These challenges are greatly exacerbated by the current impacts of climate change. In addition, there is an increasing demand for faster-growing farmed aquatic animal strains with high-quality final consumable products. Interestingly, production and welfare traits such as growth rate, feed utilization efficiency and fillet quality, disease, and parasitic resistance as well as resilience to environmental stressors, are partly controlled by the genetics of the animals and this has facilitated the development of farmed aquatic animals with the desired phenotypes of the important traits through selective breeding. Understanding the precise genetic background of the different traits in different farmed species has been demonstrated to have the potential to significantly accelerate selective breeding of farmed aquatic animals.
In this Special Issue, we invite original research and review articles in functional genomics as applied to enhance the productivity and welfare of farmed aquatic species. Original research and review articles are welcome in this Special Issue. Areas of research may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Metabolomics in farmed aquatic species;
- Genome-wide association studies in farmed aquatic species;
- Single-cell and bulk epigenomics in farmed aquatic species;
- Single-cell and bulk transcriptomics in farmed aquatic species;
- Multi-omics integration in farmed aquatic species;
- Genomic selection or functional genomic enhanced genomic selection in farmed aquatic species;
- Functional genomics-guided vaccine development in farmed aquatic species;
- Molecular quantitative trait loci identification in farmed aquatic species;
- Genome editing in farmed aquatic species.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Robert Mukiibi
Dr. Yangzhen Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- transcriptomics
- epigenomics
- genomics
- genomic selection
- proteomics
- metabolomics
- GWAS
- molecular-QTLs
- sustainable aquaculture
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