Interactions between Fish and Microbes

Dear Colleagues,

The relationship between fish and microbes in aquatic environments or the fish’s internal environment constitutes an extremely complex and sophisticated microecosystem. These complex interactions are important drivers of ecosystem functions and coinfection diseases, leading to the transition of microorganisms from mutualism to antagonism, and they are critical for fish health and the maintenance of aquatic environment stability. As part of biodiversity research on bacteria–fungal interactions, virus–bacteria or the host, and coinfection diseases, as well as symbiotic interactions between fish and microbes are some examples that have made achievements in the field of aquaculture. The interaction mechanism between microbes and fish is an essential part of healthy, subhealth, and disease factor interactions. We invite you to submit overviews, notes, or articles on the recent advances in the interaction mechanisms between fish and microbes, relating, for example, immune metabolomics, dual transcriptomics or proteomics, water–environmental regulation-mediated interactions, and infection-mediated microbial interactions of microbes, along with groundbreaking research on the interactions with coinfection disease control, prevention, and treatment, and sustainable and healthy aquaculture via microbial interactions. We look forward to publishing your latest research with exciting new findings on the topic of interaction mechanisms between fish and microbes, and we also welcome aspects related to coinfection and symbiotic diseases.

Prof. Dr. Aijun Lü
Guest Editor

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• symbiotic interactions
• interaction mechanism
• bacteria–fungal interactions
• viruses–bacteria or host
• coinfection disease
• multiomics
• microecosystem