Special Issue "Emerging and Re-emerging Fish and Shellfish Viruses - Special Issue Dedicated to Dr. James R. Winton"
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diseases of aquatic animals
Interests: fish diseases; innate and adaptive immunity; host-pathogen interaction; vaccine and immunostimulants development; diagnosis of diseases; epidemic survey; pathogenic mechanisms of infectious diseases; environmental impacts on fish health
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
| As many of you are aware, Dr. James R. Winton of the United States Geological Service Western Fisheries Research Center, Seattle, Washington has recently retired after a remarkable career in fish health research and management that focused on fish viruses. We, his students, friends, colleagues, and collaborators are assembling this Special Issue on emerging and re-emerging fish and shellfish viruses as a tribute to his outstanding career. Dr. Winton’s remarkable achievements are summarized in his curriculum vitae click here. | ![]() |
| Emerging and re-emerging fish and shellfish viral infections present a substantial impediment to fishery conservation, sustainability, and farming. What led to the emergence of these serious pathogens? What is the extent of the losses they can cause to the environment and fishery recruitment? What is the best management strategy to control the spread of these viruses and mitigate their effects? These and many more related questions are currently without answers. It is well known, however, that these emerging fish viruses are mostly novel, i.e., were never described, while others have re-emerged in a mutated form, as revealed by deep transcriptome sequencing. Overwhelmed by the current situation, fishery managers and scientists are anxious to decipher the nature of emerging viruses, their reservoirs, modes of transmission, as well as potential targets for drug discovery and vaccine development. | |
| We would like to invite you to contribute to Dr. Winton’s Special Issue by submitting a research paper, review article, or short communication that further our understanding of fish and shellfish viruses’ pathogenicity, immunology, epidemiology, improved diagnostics, newly developed vaccines, taxonomy, and host susceptibility. | |
Prof. Mohamed Faisal
Dr. Jun Li
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Animals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- fish and shellfish viruses
- host-pathogen intricacies
- emerging viral infections
- development of novel diagnostic assays
- fish virus immunology
- vaccine development.
