Oxidative Stress of Aquatic Animals

Dear Colleagues,

Aquaculture plays an important role in providing high-quality food for human beings, the yield of which could be highly improved by intensive aquaculture. However, with the development of intensive aquaculture, the adverse effects of the aquaculture environment's deterioration and feed resource shortage on aquaculture itself are increasingly obvious. It has been proven that the hazardous substances derived from water and food, such as hypoxia, excessive nitrite, heavy metals, herbicide, mycotoxin, anti-nutritional factors, and others, can induce oxidative stress in aquatic animals, while some nutrients and feed additives could relief oxidative stress. However, most of the research is mainly focused on the changes of oxidative damage products, some antioxidant enzymes, and the corresponding gene expressions, while the advanced mechanisms (on the molecular and cellular levels) responsible for the progress of oxidative stress, induced by hazardous substances or relieved by nutrition in aquatic animals, remain largely unresolved. Novel findings in related areas might expand our understanding about oxidative stress in aquatic animals and enable us to find more targets to reduce oxidative stress, subsequently helping to develop a more healthy aquaculture.

In this Special Issue, we invite researchers to provide original research and review articles that relate to the oxidative stress of aquatic animals. We seek articles in a wide range of fields, such as aquatic animal nutrition, barrier function, and aquatic animal health. We wish for this Special Issue to represent a valued accumulation of new knowledge in this field.

Dr. Pei Wu
Guest Editor

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