Growth, Metabolism, and Flesh Quality in Aquaculture Nutrition
A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Feeding".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2024 | Viewed by 174
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aquaculture; nutrition; growth; metabolism; flesh quality
Interests: Aquaculture nutrition and feed; reproductive physiology of crustacean; genetic resource and breeding of crabs; nutrients metabolism of crustacean; hatchery and culture technology of crabs; rice-fish integrated culture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the aquaculture industry has rapidly developed, and aquatic nutrition has played an important role. At present, however, the relationships between a large number of aquatic species and various nutrients remain unclear. In order to improve the growth, digestion, intestinal health, and flesh quality of aquatic animals, the use of feed additives, such as bioactive components, probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes, and medicinal plants, is becoming more common. Additionally, with the general shortage of fishmeal, a large number of new protein sources in diets have been developed and gradually used in aquatic animals. Nonetheless, there have been limited reports of research on the growth, metabolism, and flesh quality of aquatic animals after the replacement of fishmeal. For this Special Issue, we will collect studies (original research articles, perspectives, reviews, and mini-reviews) that focus on growth, metabolism, and flesh quality in aquaculture nutrition.
Scope and Information for authors
We welcome contributions that address or explore topics including, but not limited to, the following:
-Evaluation of diet supplementation strategies to influence animal performance, metabolism, health, and/or flesh quality;
-Identification of various dietary additives that influence attractiveness, metabolism, growth, and/or reproduction;
-Determination of dietary and metabolic requirements for various nutrients among different aquatic species;
-Evaluation of novel or established feedstuffs with digestibility and growth trials;
-Applications of omics in aquaculture nutrition;
-Optimization of diet formulations.
Dr. Hang Yang
Prof. Dr. Xugan Wu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Fishes is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- nutrients
- additives
- medicinal plants
- new protein sources
- growth
- metabolism
- flesh quality
