Fish Hematology
A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editor
Interests: aquaculture; nutrition; shrimp; innate immunity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fish aquaculture production is one of the fastest animal productions and will have a significant role in providing food for the world's population in the future; however, intensive aquaculture practices can subject cultured animals to stress. The maintenance of healthy fish is fundamental to the productivity of this sector. Monitoring the health of fish using hematological analysis is especially important as a direct or inferential indicator because this gives information related to the tolerance to a stressor agent or/and illness of the fish. Alterations of environmental factors and the presence of a wide range of pathogens can result in changes in physiological and behavioral responses and even the death of the fish due to stress and is one of the potential problems in the advancement of fish culture. Notwithstanding that the determination of hematological parameters represents a useful tool for evaluating erythropoietic activity, cytotoxic and genotoxic effects, nutritional status, immune system, stress response, fish health and welfare status, etc., there is still a lack of knowledge of blood parameters in fish species of importance for aquaculture and especially in those that have the potential to be farmed.
We are pleased to invite you to submit original research or reviews on the latest advances in fish hematology to this Special Issue. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the hematological parameters that can facilitate the development of indicators of the fish health status in response to changes related to nutrition, husbandry factors, environmental factors and disease outbreaks.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Oscar Basilio Del Rio-Zaragoza
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hematology
- blood parameters
- blood cells
- health
- stress
- physiology
- nutrition
- diseases
- aquaculture
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