Advances in Fish Reproductive Physiology and Endocrinology: From Bench to Tank

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".

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Dear Colleagues,

Aquaculture is an ever-growing field, constantly striving to ameliorate and increase production to meet consumers’ needs and requests. To do so, it is mandatory to deepen the knowledge regarding the physiology and endocrinology of the reproduction of aquatic species, which are currently lacking in pivotal data. Indeed, one of the biggest challenges is represented by the extreme variability in fish biology, capable of showing an impressively wide array of reproductive patterns, often impossible to reproduce in farm settings. It is also important to mention that fish reproduction comprises other fields, such as laboratory animal science and aquariology, rather than just food production.

The present Special Issue will collect studies aiming to characterize the reproductive biology of fish in all its aspects by means of physiological and endocrinological investigations. Trials performed in both laboratory and farming settings, ranging from molecular to behavioral studies, will be considered to try to gain new insights regarding the physiology of fish reproduction useful for aquaculture.

Dr. Albamaria Parmeggiani
Dr. Alberto Elmi
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De Novo Assembly, Characterization and Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of the Mature Gonads in Spinibarbus hollandi
by Chong Han, Wenwei Huang, Suhan Peng, Jiangwei Zhou, Huawei Zhan, Yuying Zhang, Wenjun Li, Jian Gong and Qiang Li
Animals 2023, 13(1), 166; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13010166 - 31 Dec 2022
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Spinibarbus hollandi is an important commercial aquaculture species in southeastern China, but with long maturity period and low egg laying amount. However, there has been little study of its gonad development and reproductive regulation, which limits aquaculture production. Here, for the first time, [...] Read more.
Spinibarbus hollandi is an important commercial aquaculture species in southeastern China, but with long maturity period and low egg laying amount. However, there has been little study of its gonad development and reproductive regulation, which limits aquaculture production. Here, for the first time, gonadal transcriptomes of male and female S. hollandi were analyzed. A total of 167,152 unigenes were assembled, with only 48,275 annotated successfully. After comparison, a total of 21,903 differentially expressed genes were identified between male and female gonads, of which 16,395 were upregulated and 5508 were downregulated in the testis. In addition, a large number of differentially expressed genes participating in reproduction, gonad formation and differentiation, and gametogenesis were screened out and the differential expression profiles of partial genes were further validated using quantitative real-time PCR. These results will provide basic information for further research on gonad differentiation and development in S. hollandi. Full article
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