Frontiers in Fish Gut and Environmental Microbiomics
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 2450
Special Issue Editor
Interests: fish gut ‘island’; fish gut microbiome; water microbiome; lake eutrophiction; microbial ecology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ecological succession has been a central theme in ecology for more than 120 years. However, the mechanism underlying gut microbiota succession in aquatic animals remains elusive, especially at a relatively long-term scale (e.g., over host development). Although many studies indicated that both ecological and evolutionary forces could affect the succession of gut microbiota in terrestrial animals, much less is known about that in aquatic fish gut ecosystems. Fish encompass nearly one-half of the vertebrate diversity and are considered the most successful vertebrates evolved on Earth. Their successful evolution may not be possible without the help of gut microbiota. Fish, in turn, provide gut microorganisms with appropriate habitats and necessary nutrients and protect the gut microbiota from adverse disturbances (e.g., pathogen invasion).
Proposed topics for this Special Issue may address the fish gut microbiome and the related environmental microbiome, but are not limited to the following: (1) mechanisms underlying the ecological succession of the fish gut microbiome; (2) ecological service functions of the gut microbiome on host metabolism, disease resistance, etc.; (3) the element cycling is driven by environmental microbiomes and their adaptation mechanisms in aquaculture ecosystems.
All types of manuscripts (original research, review, etc.) are highly welcome.
Prof. Dr. Qingyun Yan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fish gut ‘island’
- fish gut microbiome
- water microbiome
- community assembly
- community succession
- community function
- host-microbiota interactions
- aquaculture
