Special Issue "Effects of Marine Chemical Pollution on Fish Health Status under the Global Change Scenario"

Fish are widely used as a target organism within the framework of marine pollution assessment and toxicology research. The assessment of biological effects in marine fish caused by environmental chemical pollution has prompted the use of contaminant-related biomarkers such as those of endocrine disruption, genotoxicity, cytotoxicity, neurotoxicity, histopathology, behavior, diseases and reproductive success, in addition to aspects of cellular and humoral immunity. In a realistic world, marine fish face up to complex mixtures of chemicals during their life cycles along with other environmental stressors such as pathogen pressure, osmotic stress, fishery practices, habitat alterations, sea water warming, acidification, and eutrophication. The overall effects on fish health status and on fish populations caused by interactions of chemical pollutants with other environmental stressors is of great interest and concern under the global change scenario.

We invite manuscripts that address these topics of research, including modeling experiments, laboratory, mesocosm and field studies which provide new insights to better understand the mode of action of certain chemicals and mixtures in fish biology and in their offspring, and those investigating fish health effects under environmental changing conditions. The studies unravelling the mechanisms that regulate systemic immune homeostasis in marine fish and that would contribute to incorporating the use of immune responses as stress biomarkers in pollution studies are also welcome.

Dr. Concepción Martínez-Gómez
Guest Editor

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• chemical contaminants
• ecotoxicology
• environmental stressors
• health effects
• global change
• marine fish