Detection and Monitoring of Aquatic Pathogens by Using Environmental DNA (eDNA)
A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Welfare, Health and Disease".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 50
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biodiversity conservation; emerging infectious diseases; invasive species; aquatic ecosystems; one health
Interests: emerging infectious diseases; zoonoses; OneHealth/EcoHealth; disease ecology; biodiversity; genetic diversity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The journal Fishes is preparing a Special Issue entitled “Detection and monitoring of aquatic pathogens using environmental DNA”. Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an exciting tool for rapid biodiversity surveys and conservation and management strategies, allowing rapid targeted or multispecies detection by using DNA derived from an environmental sample in combination with high-throughput sequencing technologies. Importantly, eDNA-based biodiversity monitoring provides a non-destructive and non-invasive way to sample DNA from aquatic organisms, making it a more ethical tool for biodiversity monitoring. Increasingly, bacterial, fungal, and animal communities from diverse aquatic environments are being efficiently sampled using eDNA, allowing early detection of pathogen introduction and emergence. This special issue seeks to gather together studies that aim to develop eDNA assays to improve the detection and monitoring of all aquatic pathogens (including bacteria, viruses, and fungi) and parasites for biodiversity assessments, invasion biology studies, fisheries management and/or conservation strategies. A wide range of aspects are welcome, from innovative sampling strategies and molecular improvements to issues and questions regarding species specificities, sensitivity of detection, interpretation of results, etc.
Prof. Dr. Rodolphe Elie Gozlan
Dr. Marine Combe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental DNA/RNA
- aquatic pathogens and parasites
- aquatic host-pathogens association
- aquatic animal diseases
- eDNA-based innovations.
