Genetics and Molecular Breeding in Fisheries and Aquaculture

Dear Colleagues,

With decades of efforts, scientists have made remarkable achievements in characterizing genomic structure, genomic variations, and the genetic basis of economically important traits of aquaculture species, which is helpful to improve production efficiency in order to satisfy consumer demands and improve the commercial profits of fisheries and aquaculture. Genetic dissection of important economic traits, including growth rate, disease resistance, sexual determination, and tolerance of various environmental stressors in aquaculture animals, has become the focus of basic research. Moreover, advanced molecular biology technologies such as genome wide selective breeding, gene editing, and cell transplantation have been extensively applied to genetics and breeding in the aquaculture industry. Whereas in most fish and other aquatic animals, major genes related to economic traits have not been identified, and the understandings of regulatory mechanisms for sex determination, disease resistance, stress resistance, environmental adaptation, reproduction, and development are quite limited. In this Special Issue, we are interested in publishing research articles and reviews on genetics and molecular breeding in fisheries and aquaculture, including WGS and fine mapping, the construction of high-density genetic maps, trait-related markers, sex control, genome editing, multi-omics combinations of genome, transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, and epigenome, and other molecular breeding technologies application in aquatic genetics and breeding.

Dr. Lei Liu
Guest Editor

Dr. Kai Zhang
Dr. Xuedi Du
Guest Editor Assistants

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