Genomics Applied to Fish Health
A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Welfare, Health and Disease".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 194
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The sustainability and growth of aquaculture are essential to meeting the increased demand for global food production, and high-quality protein production from aquatic animals and algae is key to supplying this demand and contributing to food security. Achieving a better understanding of the biological problems (nutrition, pathogens, reproduction, and environment) in aquaculture species is crucial to realizing sustainable aquaculture, and the impact of genomics upon fish health is relevant for the promotion of the sustainability of aquaculture or natural populations. Genomic research could provide relevant information to solve these problems, including information on gene structure and function, pathway regulation, transcriptional response, and protein changes.
This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality, novel research on all fields of genomics applied to fish health, including all fish species, whether from aquaculture or natural populations. Manuscripts on established species, as well as new species for aquaculture diversification, are welcome. This Special Issue aims to publish contributions that focus on the study of genomics, including the functional response of genes and proteins in fish (including the transcriptomics of coding or non-coding RNAs, proteomics, etc.), as well as gene editing applied to aquaculture species, in a context of fish health, including infectious or metabolic diseases or environmental effects upon health. We welcome original articles and reviews that cover any of the related topics.
Dr. Phillip Dettleff
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- aquaculture
- genomics
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- sustainability
- fish health
- infectious disease
- metabolic diseases
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