Interactions between the Main Physiological Systems in Fish
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Aquatic Animals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 3249
Special Issue Editors
Interests: immune-reproductive responses; marine fish; viral transmission through the gonad; endocrine disruption
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Dear Colleagues,
The maintenance of homeostatic functions and the ability to adapt the biological functions to the environment implies the interaction of several biological systems. As our knowledge of the different biological systems functions increased in fish, the research studies reporting the interplay between them have increased in the last years. Thus, interactions between immune, neural, endocrine, digestive, adrenal systems together with growth and behavior are actually demonstrated to interplay and share some regulatory factors between them. In vertebrates including fish, the resistance to infections shows clear sex dependence. In fact, sexual hormones play a clear regulatory role of several leukocyte functions as also does other hormones related to stress, growth, and behavior. Differential growth and body composition between sexes have also been determined in several fish species.
The aquaculture sector is producing more marine protein than fishing, recently becoming the fastest growing food-producing sector. In this framework, the welfare of animals is a special concern of society. The aquaculture sector is aware that the handling, transportations, crowding and pre-slaughter methods decrease the health and welfare of the animals, and it is demanding improved protocols. This will only be possible whether the actual knowledge about the main physiological functions (growth, immune response, reproduction, stress, feeding, and nutrition) and their regulatory pathways and interplays are taken into account.
In order to understand fish biological responses to catching, handling, crowding, immunostimulation, vaccination, stunning, feeding and so on in captive conditions, this volume aims to bring hot research and applied topics in the interplay of different biological functions and their regulatory pathways that orchestrates the integrations of all these physiological responses in fish.
Dr. Elena Chaves-Pozo
Dr. Marta Arizcun Arizcun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Fish
- immune response
- neuroendocrine
- reproduction
- growth
- stress
- biological regulatory pathways
- nutrition
