Functional Genomics for Sustainable Aquaculture
A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Genetics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2024) | Viewed by 2385
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fishes play an essential role in safeguarding food security and nutrition for human beings. According to FAO’s State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022, aquaculture accounted for 56 percent of the total aquatic animal food production available for human consumption, while the total production of cultured fish is expected to reach 100 million tons for the first time in 2027 and 106 million tons in 2030. As the fastest-growing food system on the planet, the sustainability of aquaculture development has attracted worldwide attention.
Great progress has been made in genomics research of aquaculture species during the past decade. Further investigations into fish genomes, including genes, pathways, and their regulatory networks, are able to facilitate our understanding of related biological processes and hopefully guide good practices toward sustainable aquaculture, such as selective breeding, conservation of aquatic genetic resources, precision nutrition and eco-friendly fish feed, biosecurity, antimicrobial resistance prevention, adaptation and mitigation for climate change, etc.
We are currently inviting submissions of research papers and reviews for this Special Issue on “Functional Genomics for Sustainable Aquaculture”. Studies on aquaculture species using various –omics technologies are warmly welcome.
Dr. Zixia Zhao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- quantitative trait loci mapping
- genome-wide association studies
- transcriptomics
- proteomics
- metabolomics
- epigenomics
- phenomics
- aquaculture
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