Germplasm Resources and Genetic Breeding of Aquatic Animals
A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2025 | Viewed by 955
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fish; genetic; breeding
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Interests: sperm cryopreservation; gynogenesis; selective breeding; crossbreeding; sex control; vitrification cryopreservation for frozen embryos; flounder breeding system; Paralichthys olivaceus; fish
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multifarious taxonomically diverse groups are detected in aquatic animals. Their remarkable evolutionary success is characterized by varied reproductive strategies and multiple genome duplication events throughout their evolutionary history. Investigations into germplasm resources and the genetic breeding of aquatic animals will provide critical insights for understanding growth and development, population diversity, evolutionary trajectories, and molecular breeding applications. Current genetic breeding technologies employed to combat species degeneration encompass hybridization, gynogenesis, androgenesis, selective breeding, transgenic modification, and gene editing technologies. These interventions frequently yield progeny with significant enhancements in commercially important traits including growth performance, survival rates, disease resistance, body color, and environmental stress tolerance. Through advanced genomic approaches, including genome-wide association studies (GWAS), QTL-seq analysis, and transcriptome sequencing, researchers have successfully identified key candidate genes and genetic markers associated with economically valuable traits.
This Special Issue aims to share the latest research trends and applications of “Germplasm Resources and Genetic Breeding of Aquatic Animals” that might shed light on genomic evolution, regulatory mechanism, functional gene, and novel breeding strategies. To advance the knowledge of such intricate issues, contributions from experts in the field, in the form of research papers and critical reviews, are called for.
Dr. Yang Liu
Prof. Dr. Yongsheng Tian
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- germplasm preservation and utilization
- genome evolution
- omics analysis
- economic traits
- functional gene
- mitochondrial genome
- microsatellite
- growth and development
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