Microbial Diseases of Marine Organisms II
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2024) | Viewed by 620
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health management of aquatic organisms, with emphasis on the surveillance and diagnostics of the cause of abnormal mortalities in both farmed conditions and free-living organisms and the possible impact of pathogens on the sustainability of aquatic/marine ecosystems
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Interests: marine organisms; bacterial pathogens; molecular diagnostics; whole-genome sequencing; bioinformatics; virulence; antimicrobial susceptibility; diagnostics
Interests: fish diseases; autogenous vaccines; immune answer; cell culture; fish viruses; Mediterranean marine fish diseases; mollusk diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The sustainability of the marine environment is threatened by industrialization, tourism, marine traffic, and global warming. Marine organisms, whether prey or predators in the food chain, are very important members of the marine ecosystem, forming associations with microorganisms including protists, bacteria, fungi, and viruses, and their relationships are mostly mutually beneficial symbiont systems. However, environmental changes induced by anthropogenic impact and climate changes may alter the symbiont relationship, and microorganisms could influence the health, physiology, behavior and ecology of marine animals, while many different pathogenic microorganisms have been reported as causes of mortality of marine organisms. These disease outbreaks may lead to a large decline in the host population, resulting in the endangerment of the affected species and causing an imbalance in the marine environment.
The already published Special Issue on “Microbial Diseases of Marine Organisms” provided valuable information which could be used for setting the strategies for disease mitigation and control and consequently contribute to preserving the sustainability of the marine ecosystem. Interconnection between varieties of hosts such as corals, endemic (fan shell), farmed or commercial bivalve mollusk species (different species of oysters), decapods and wild fish in public aquaria and aquaculture facilities with viruses, parasites and bacteria were described in this issue. Since the topic is of utmost importance to healthy oceans and seas, we are expecting to learn more about other microorganisms present either as healthy microbiota of their host or pathogens causing deleterious outcomes for the species and the ecosystem itself.
Dr. Snježana Zrnčić
Dr. Ivana Giovanna Zupičić
Dr. Dražen Oraić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- viruses
- bacteria
- parasites
- fungi, fish
- mollusks
- cetaceans
- turtles
- marine environment
- interaction of marine organisms and pathogens
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