Molecular Biology of Fish Stress
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 800
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fish transportation stress; ammonia nitrogen stress; muscle quality; apoptosis
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Interests: cold stress; thermal stress; genome; gene function; fish anti-stress; bioinformatics; molecular genetics; genome editing
Interests: acute salinity stress; aquatic animal nutrition and feed; endoplasmic reticulum stress; high-fat diet stress; nutritional physiological stress
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fish are an important source of food that provide essential nutrition (particularly protein) for humans. Throughout the industrial chain, including aquaculture, transportation, and processing, etc., live fish are exposed to a range of environmental stressors (e.g., temperature, hypoxia, acidity, ammonia nitrogen, salinity, crowding, etc.) that may trigger a stress response, affecting their survival rate, welfare, health, growth, muscle quality, etc. Additionally, over-nutrition stress, such as high-fat and high- carbohydrate diets, can also contribute to metabolic disturbances and related health issues in fish. Under stress, fishes’ adaptive regulatory strategies mobilize energy to counteract environmental changes and maintain vital functions, involving processes like gene expression, metabolism, and immunity, etc. Molecular biology serves as a fundamental discipline for investigating these stress responses.
This Special Issue invites papers in the following areas:
- Molecular mechanisms of stress and anti-stress of fish throughout the industrial chain, including aquaculture, transportation, processing, etc.
- Impact of stress on fish survival rate, welfare, growth, health, muscle quality, etc.
- Influence of over-nutrition stress (e.g., high-fat and high-carbohydrate diets) on fish health and metabolism.
- New strategies or natural additives applied to mitigate fish stress and the underlying molecular mechanisms.
- Other aspects related to the molecular biology of fish stress.
Dr. Tao Yin
Dr. Yong Long
Dr. Min Jin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fish stress
- molecular biology
- omics
- apoptosis
- inflammation
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