The Application of Genetic and Genomic Biotechnology in Aquaculture
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 39587
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fish breeding and physiology; genome editing; transgenics; applied bioinformatics and genomics; gene function and characterization; mucosal immunity
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Interests: selective breeding; hybridization; gene transfer; gene mapping and genomics; reproductive physiology
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Interests: comparative genomics; evolutionary genomics; metagenomics; reproduction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a Special Issue entitled “The Application of Genetic and Genomic Biotechnology in Aquaculture” in the MDPI journal Biology. We welcome research papers, communications, and review articles focusing on the applications of biotechnological and/or genomic tools to improve our understanding of sustainable development of aquaculture. The goal is to facilitate genetic enhancement program information in the aquaculture industry. Biotechnology has shaped aquaculture, which is the fastest-growing farmed food sector worldwide. Aquaculture has become a major source of concern in animal-based protein sources, food security, and economic stability. The advancement of next-generation sequencing technology, genomics, and genome editing has enabled innovations with a broad range of applications in aquaculture.
This issue on genetics and genomics biotechnology in aquaculture would emphasize improving/exploring important production traits in aquaculture, such as growth, flavor, and disease resistance, among other traits, or using model fish species to study traditional/molecular/quantitative genetics or advanced genomics.
Transgenesis and gene/genome editing have demonstrated the potential to introduce intended genetic changes and corresponding functionalities. Any effort on elucidating the causal associations between genotype and phenotype will be appreciated. As a few massively parallel genome editing platforms or CRISPR arrays have been tested and reprogrammed on model species, we would be glad to evaluate any such reports on aquaculture species.
Traditional selective breeding has increased the efficiency of genetic improvement. Aquaculture species have seen some success in the molecular genetic and genomic application of marker-assisted selection, genomic selection, and multiple trait selection. We would like to explore further the potential on how genomic selection utilizes fish reproduction, fecundity, and external fertilization, and fuels selective breeding programs, and expedites genetic gain for aquaculture production traits.
Understanding the interaction between fishes and environmental pathogens/stressors would facilitate future manipulations of the resistibility of fish and sustainable development of aquaculture. Therefore, efforts on fish immune system, induction, and suppression mechanism of immune effector molecules, pattern recognition receptors, coding, and non-coding RNA molecules on an immune response would be considered.
The advancement of next-generation sequencing and the decreasing of sequence cost has greatly facilitated the genetic dissection of important traits in aquaculture and exploration regulatory mechanism. A combination of various genomic tools and technologies is more likely to better illustrate the key molecules, pathways, and genetic networks.
Lastly, reviews on biotechnologies or genomics tools for potential future aquaculture research avenues will be considered. Should you have any concerns regarding whether your manuscripts are fit for this Special Issue, please feel free to contact us. We are looking forward to communicating with you for your research and viewpoints.
Any inquiry about paper submission, please feel free to contact the editorial office ([email protected]).
Dr. Baofeng Su
Dr. Rex Dunham
Dr. Xu Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- selection
- breeding
- genetics
- transgenics
- genome editing
- physiology
- immunity
- genomics
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