About this Research Topic
An aquatic animal (either vertebrate or invertebrate) comes into intimate biological interactions with environmental waters for most or all of its lifetime. Salinity is a pivotal environmental factor influencing the survival, growth and reproduction of aquatic animal. Often, the intensity, duration and frequency of this modulation work synergistically with temperature. This raises concerns about the effects that anthropogenic global warming will have on the aquatic animal through osmotic stress. To cope with such stress, the aquatic animal has evolved a multitude of osmoregulatory strategies that actively balance the absorption and secretion of water and/or salts to maintain osmotic homeostasis.
Therefore, an effective osmoregulatory capacity favours euryhaline aquatic animal through habitat expansion and adaptive radiation in a climate change scenario. Systematic research focusing on how such intricate mechanisms evolve and function will not only contribute to the in-depth understanding of the physiology of osmoregulation but also is of great significance for better selective breeding programs and environmental management in aquaculture of fish and aquatic invertebrates and for the conservation of global fisheries.
The current Research Topic will focus on the physiological and individual responses to contrasting spatio-temporal salinity stress in fish and aquatic animal invertebrates which is are of great economic importance in aquaculture and fishery. Additionally, studies using modern experimental animal models, transgenic models to understanding the osmoregulatory mechanism are welcomed. Integrative knowledge within and across levels of organization of life including molecule, tissue and organism will be prioritized, in an attempt to compliment our current understanding of osmoregulation in the aquatic animal.
This Research Topic includes, but are not limited to:
• Physiological and molecular responses of the aquatic animal as a result of the perception of salinity changes in their environment
• Modulation mechanisms and strategies in cellular networking that transduce and resolve signals post salinity stress
• Dynamic mobilization of the anion transport and/or membrane permeability adjustment during salinity fluctuations
• Biomarker discovery linked to osmoregulation control in aquatic animal
• Roles of metabolites in maintaining osmotic homeostasis in aquatic halobiont
• Involvement of the microbiome in mediating osmoregulation in aquatic animal
• Evolution of osmoregulation mechanisms in the aquatic animal exposed to salinity stress
• Strategies for artificially improving osmoregulatory function and adaptability
Therefore, an effective osmoregulatory capacity favours euryhaline aquatic animal through habitat expansion and adaptive radiation in a climate change scenario. Systematic research focusing on how such intricate mechanisms evolve and function will not only contribute to the in-depth understanding of the physiology of osmoregulation but also is of great significance for better selective breeding programs and environmental management in aquaculture of fish and aquatic invertebrates and for the conservation of global fisheries.
The current Research Topic will focus on the physiological and individual responses to contrasting spatio-temporal salinity stress in fish and aquatic animal invertebrates which is are of great economic importance in aquaculture and fishery. Additionally, studies using modern experimental animal models, transgenic models to understanding the osmoregulatory mechanism are welcomed. Integrative knowledge within and across levels of organization of life including molecule, tissue and organism will be prioritized, in an attempt to compliment our current understanding of osmoregulation in the aquatic animal.
This Research Topic includes, but are not limited to:
• Physiological and molecular responses of the aquatic animal as a result of the perception of salinity changes in their environment
• Modulation mechanisms and strategies in cellular networking that transduce and resolve signals post salinity stress
• Dynamic mobilization of the anion transport and/or membrane permeability adjustment during salinity fluctuations
• Biomarker discovery linked to osmoregulation control in aquatic animal
• Roles of metabolites in maintaining osmotic homeostasis in aquatic halobiont
• Involvement of the microbiome in mediating osmoregulation in aquatic animal
• Evolution of osmoregulation mechanisms in the aquatic animal exposed to salinity stress
• Strategies for artificially improving osmoregulatory function and adaptability
Keywords: climate change, evolution, homeostasis, osmoregulation, salinity stress
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