Omics Approaches in Aquatic Nutritional Physiology

Aquaculture is considered a fastest-blooming global food industry, playing a crucial role in fulfilling the increased demand for animal protein requirements. Diet quality greatly affects an animal’s performance. When aquatic animals are fed diets of different quality, alterations in key metabolic pathways are difficult to characterize by using traditional nutritional methods. Understanding the effect of these nutritional regimes on the mechanisms is essential to optimize new diets and ensure the quality of the end product for farmed aquatic species. Omics approaches to research in aquatic nutrition and physiology is an emerging frontier field.

Omics approaches, including genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics, enable a new holistic vision of a biological system at the level of genes, transcripts, proteins and metabolites. And they are well established and relevant for aquatic nutritional physiology research. Future omics approaches can better understand physiological and metabolic mechanisms involved in animal nutrition.

This Research Topic aims to publish original manuscripts that highlight new developments in the broad application of omics approaches towards aquatic nutritional physiology.

This Research Topic aims to collect studies (including original research, perspectives, reviews, and mini reviews) that potential topics include, but are not limited to, omics approaches applications in:
• How feed and nutrients act in aquatic animals metabolism.
• The nutritions and its implication of environmental stress change.
• The nutrients and it's influence in the final fish and shrimp quality.