Aquatic Animal Medicine and Pathology
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 1140
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fish parasitology; host-pathogen interaction; fish immunology; marine organisms’ pathology; microbiology
Interests: marine aquaculture; pathology; welfare
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diseases are not only one of the main constraints for the aquaculture industry, but they also impact aquaria and wild aquatic animals on a smaller scale. And the emerging impact of global warming on the fitness and condition of aquatic animals worldwide, associated with changes in the life cycle, transmission, extension of the infective season and geographical extension of a disease-affected area predicted in several global warming scenarios makes knowledge about diseases that affect these organisms an urgent and critical issue. It is important to better understand and characterize the disease processes in known disease outbreaks and to identify new pathogens and the mechanisms related to host-pathogen interactions in new pathologies that affect aquatic animals to optimize epidemiological models and create countermeasures to limit the impact of disease in the aquaculture industry and wild/aquaria aquatic animals.
In line with this, the present Special Issue welcomes original scientific and review articles on key and emerging aquatic animal diseases and their impact on the hosts, covering pathogen characterization, host physiological responses (including gene/protein expression), virulence, transmission (including wild-farmed host interactions), pathogenesis (including experimental trials), diagnosis (disease characterization and development of new molecular markers and techniques), and novel treatment strategies (vaccines, synthetic and alternative treatments, nutraceuticals…). Articles focusing on omics studies will be appreciated.
Dr. Márcio Júlio Vicente Moreira
Dr. Florbela Soares
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- disease
- host-pathogen interactions
- pathogen characterization
- treatments
