Aquacultural organisms are the important food source, especially the source of high-quality protein. They are also important to maintain biodiversity but sensitive to changes of the global environment. Adoption of the new sequencing technologies have made it possible to analyze critical economic traits and metabolic mechanism at multiple levels in the last decade. With reference to the existing research achievements in crops and livestock, study of molecular biology in aquacultural organisms should pay more attention to improvement of the fundamental data and principle through the study of forward and reverse genetics. Genome sequencing/re-sequence and related study are the quickest way to gain a large amount of data within a short time. A huge amounts of sequencing data have been generated in recent years, but the phenotype-based and multiple-omics data derived from genetic populations, mutants or gene-edited materials are still lacking in aquacultural organisms, which obstructs more theoretical and practical breakthroughs in breeding.
Correspondingly, we think that it is possible to solve the current research problems through the following aspects (but not limited to) of genomics study: 1) Genome sequencing/re-sequencing of the genetic populations, mutants, gene-edited materials to identify the linkage between the traits and genome variants; 2) Multiple omics study combing different sequencing technologies instead of the use of a single technology to explain different levels of molecular mechanism; 3) Application of new techniques (i.e., single-cell transcriptome sequencing, target region sequencing) to profile the precise biological regulation; 4) Cross-species pan-genome sequencing to reveal the evolution of different species under different geographical environments. In addition, metagenomic and epigenetic studies are increasingly applied to understand the life of aquacultural organisms, which are highly affected by the environment and environmental microbes. These studies will benefit to raise the efficiency of molecular breeding, to reveal of the evolution of different species, to understand the influence of the earth environment on the survival of aquacultural organisms, and to develop the technology of gene function identification in aquacultural animals and plants.
The aim of the current Research Topic to publish the promising, recent and novel research in omics study of the aquacultural organisms. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic mainly include, but not limited to:
• Population genomics study of the important biological or economic traits
• Sequencing of mutants or gene-edited materials
• Multi-omics study combining genome, transcriptome, proteome, etc
• Single-cell transcriptome sequencing
• Target region sequencing (e.g., Chip-seq, DAP-seq, Cut&Tag)
• Pan-genome study of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes
• Metagenome (or others) sequencing of microbes to reveal a relationship between microbes and the host aquatic organisms
• Epigenetic regulation study
Aquacultural organisms are the important food source, especially the source of high-quality protein. They are also important to maintain biodiversity but sensitive to changes of the global environment. Adoption of the new sequencing technologies have made it possible to analyze critical economic traits and metabolic mechanism at multiple levels in the last decade. With reference to the existing research achievements in crops and livestock, study of molecular biology in aquacultural organisms should pay more attention to improvement of the fundamental data and principle through the study of forward and reverse genetics. Genome sequencing/re-sequence and related study are the quickest way to gain a large amount of data within a short time. A huge amounts of sequencing data have been generated in recent years, but the phenotype-based and multiple-omics data derived from genetic populations, mutants or gene-edited materials are still lacking in aquacultural organisms, which obstructs more theoretical and practical breakthroughs in breeding.
Correspondingly, we think that it is possible to solve the current research problems through the following aspects (but not limited to) of genomics study: 1) Genome sequencing/re-sequencing of the genetic populations, mutants, gene-edited materials to identify the linkage between the traits and genome variants; 2) Multiple omics study combing different sequencing technologies instead of the use of a single technology to explain different levels of molecular mechanism; 3) Application of new techniques (i.e., single-cell transcriptome sequencing, target region sequencing) to profile the precise biological regulation; 4) Cross-species pan-genome sequencing to reveal the evolution of different species under different geographical environments. In addition, metagenomic and epigenetic studies are increasingly applied to understand the life of aquacultural organisms, which are highly affected by the environment and environmental microbes. These studies will benefit to raise the efficiency of molecular breeding, to reveal of the evolution of different species, to understand the influence of the earth environment on the survival of aquacultural organisms, and to develop the technology of gene function identification in aquacultural animals and plants.
The aim of the current Research Topic to publish the promising, recent and novel research in omics study of the aquacultural organisms. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic mainly include, but not limited to:
• Population genomics study of the important biological or economic traits
• Sequencing of mutants or gene-edited materials
• Multi-omics study combining genome, transcriptome, proteome, etc
• Single-cell transcriptome sequencing
• Target region sequencing (e.g., Chip-seq, DAP-seq, Cut&Tag)
• Pan-genome study of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes
• Metagenome (or others) sequencing of microbes to reveal a relationship between microbes and the host aquatic organisms
• Epigenetic regulation study
