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EDITORIAL article
Front. Genet.
Sec. Toxicogenomics
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fgene.2025.1608524
This article is part of the Research TopicImpact of Heavy Metal on Aquatic Life and Human HealthView all 10 articles
Editorial: Impact of Heavy Metal on Aquatic Life and Human Health
Provisionally accepted- 1Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
- 2National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
- 3Inner Mongolia Saikexing Institute of Breeding and Reproductive Biotechnology in Domestic Animal,, Hohho, China
- 4Department of Botany, Government College University, Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
- 5Yibin University, Yibin, Sichuan, China
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Heavy metals' contamination of aquatic ecosystems is an environmental 37 and public health issue. Heavy metals such as cadmium (Cd), arsenic (As), chromium 38 (Cr), lead (Pb), and mercury (Hg) persist in the environment, accumulate in aquatic 39 organisms, and biomagnify through the food chain, ultimately affecting human health 40 (El-Sappah et al., 2017;El-Sappah et al., 2022) We thank all authors and reviewers for their contributions to this significant compilation. 101We anticipate it will provide a basis for ongoing research and initiatives to address heavy 102 metal contamination in aquatic ecosystems. 103
Keywords: heavy metal, Toxicity, ecosystem, Genetic responses, antibiotics
Received: 09 Apr 2025; Accepted: 14 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 El-Sappah, Abdel-Kader, Abbas, Zafar and Li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Ahmed H. El-Sappah, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
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