Yangfang YeEditorial on the Research Topic
Nutrition, disease, environmental stress, and microorganisms in crustacean aquaculture
According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2022), global aquaculture production of crustaceans retained its growth trend in 2020 and reached 11.2 million tons, valued 81.5 billion US dollars. With the rapid expansion of aquaculture production of crustaceans (mainly shrimp and crabs), factors as nutrition, disease, and environmental stress are an existing constraint to the sustainability and growth of the global crustacean aquaculture industry (Asche et al., 2021). For a long time, the focus of traditional crustacean aquaculture studies has been primarily on crustaceans themselves (Ye et al., 2014; Ye et al., 2016; Chen and He, 2019; Ye et al., 2020; He et al., 2022), but nowadays the microbial communities hosted by the crustaceans have drawn attention of researchers.
In recent years, it is becoming increasingly clear that animals can no longer be considered as autonomous entities but rather as holobionts, encompassing the host plus its associated microbiota (McFall-Ngai et al., 2013; Bordenstein and Theis, 2015). This recognition has opened up a new field in biology and caused researchers to reexamine the questions on crustacean aquaculture. Therefore, it is crustaceans and their associated microbiotas that pull together to face factors as nutrition, disease, and environmental stress. Correspondingly, the field of crustacean microbiology has remarkably advanced in terms of information on the microbial functions in the nutrient digestion, disease defense, and stress response of the host.
Nutrients are critical in supporting the survival, development, and growth of crustaceans. Both live food and formulated diet should be digested before absorption by crustaceans. It is generally recognized that the gut microbiota provides the crustaceans with a complementary enzymatic arsenal for food ingestion (Dempsey and Kitting, 1987; Pinn et al., 1999; Lau et al., 2002; Oxley et al., 2002; Zbinden and Cambon-Bonavita, 2003). For example, bacteria and fungi in the hindgut assist digestion of wood fragments for Munidopsis andamanica (Hoyoux et al., 2009). Further, the proteasome metabolic capacity of the intestinal bacteria may facilitate the feed protein utilization of Litopenaeus vannamei (Duan et al., 2020) while a more complex and cooperative gut eukaryotic interspecies interaction may facilitate nutrient acquisition efficiency of shrimp (Dai et al., 2017). However, every coin has two sides. Microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi could be pathogens for crustaceans. Diverse diseases, such as emulsification disease of swimming crab (Wang et al., 2006) and white faeces syndrome of shrimp (Hou et al., 2018), have occurred in crustacean farming. The innate immune of crustaceans is vital for disease control. However, probiotics are considered as a practical alternative in disease prevention of crustaceans through immune enhancement, disease resistance, modulation of the gut microbiota, and competitive exclusion of pathogens (Castex et al., 2008; Talpur et al., 2012). For example, dietary supplementation of lactic acid bacteria (Enterococcus faecalis Y17 and Pediococcus pentosaceus G11) could modulate the immune system of mud crab and protect the host against Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection (Yang et al., 2019). Thus, the healthy gut microbiome affects the colonization, growth, and virulence of invading pathogens (Sassone-Corsi and Raffatellu, 2015; Bäumler and Sperandio, 2016; Xiong et al., 2019), which is vital for the fitness of host.
Crustaceans have been challenged with a variety of biotic and abiotic factors. The associated microbes of crustaceans have also been challenged and respond phylogenetically and functionally (Zheng et al., 2016; Shi et al., 2019; Lin et al., 2020; Lu et al., 2022). For example, the acute hepatopancreatic necrosis in diseased shrimp caused a gastrointestinal microbiota imbalance highlighted by the enrichment of Vibrio and the significantly increased gene abundances of the NOD receptor signaling pathway, Vibrio infection, and Vibrio pathogenic cycle function (Dong et al., 2021). Thus, changes in the microbial community could determine the ability of the crustacean to cope with biotic and abiotic stress, subsequently leading to resistance, resilience, disease, or acclimatization of crustacean holobiont upon stress.
In summary, this Research Topic delivers new ideas for crustacean aquaculture accomplished up to date. We also note that it is timely to scale up the crustacean concept from the simple autonomous entity to the complex holobiont, to further understand the nutrition, disease, and environmental stress in crustacean aquaculture.
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Funding
This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32073024), the earmarked fund for CARS-48, and K. C. Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo University.
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Keywords: crustacean, nutrition, disease, environmental stress, aquaculture
Citation: Ye Y (2022) Editorial: Nutrition, disease, environmental stress, and microorganisms in crustacean aquaculture. Front. Mar. Sci. 9:1056109. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1056109
Received: 28 September 2022; Accepted: 04 October 2022;
Published: 12 October 2022.
Edited and Reviewed by:
Yngvar Olsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayCopyright © 2022 Ye. 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) and the copyright owner(s) 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: Yangfang Ye, yeyangfang@nbu.edu.cn