Novel Approaches to Enhance Disease Resilience and Welfare in Aquaculture

Aquaculture has already surpassed fisheries as a food source for a growing human population. However, this industry faces multiple stressors that jeopardize its current and future development. For instance, infectious diseases and environmental problems negatively impact the health and welfare of farmed species, increasing their mortality and causing economic losses that affect both the industry and the communities directly or indirectly related. Thus, research is still needed to strengthen animal resilience and robustness throughout the farming process.

By combining aspects such as vaccine development, functional feeds, and farming and disease management, novel practical approaches can contribute to strengthening the resilience and welfare of aquaculture-related species against stressors. Therefore, the current Research Topic aims to create a knowledge platform based on the collection of innovative research to support aquaculture production and its sustainability.

This Research Topic accepts Original Research, Review, Mini-Review, and Brief Research reports. We welcome manuscripts focusing on, but not limited to, the following subtopics:

-Immunological characterization at the local and/or systemic level
-Animal response to challenges
-In vitro / in vivo studies to validate vaccines or bioactive properties of novel compounds
-Field trials
-Multi-omics strategies
-Host-microbiome interactions
-Detection of biomarkers
-Data integration and metadata analysis
-Welfare indicators

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• ... View all formats

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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Review
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: Vaccine development, novel adjuvants, functional feeds, farming management, growth performance, disease resilience, welfare indicators, multi-omics evaluation, specific biomarkers, enrichment analysis, metadata analysis, host-microbiome interactions

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.