Ensuring water purity: Mitigating environmental risks and safeguarding human health
April 2025
Water is an indispensable resource for sustaining life, ecosystems, and economic productivity. However, increasing contamination and pollution pose severe threats to global water purity, with significant...
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Towards a low-carbon footprint: Current status and prospects for aquaculture
October 2024
Aquaculture is one of the fastest-growing agricultural sectors globally and is becoming increasingly important for producing sustainable and healthy diets with relatively low climate impacts. In comparison...
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The dual nature of water hyacinth (Pontederia crassipes): Environmental threats and sustainable solutions
Available online 3 January 2025
The invasive aquatic plant Pontederia crassipes (water hyacinth) presents significant ecological and economic challenges worldwide due to its rapid proliferation and dominance in freshwater ecosystems....
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Research advances in the structure, function, and regulation of the gill barrier in teleost fish
April 2023
The gill is an important organ in fish that is involved in various physiological functions, including respiration, filter-feeding, ammonia nitrogen excretion, and osmoregulation. The physiological functions...
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Riverine microplastics and their interaction with freshwater fish
October 2023
This paper outlines the nature of microplastic contamination in rivers and the risks to freshwater fishes. We discuss how input sources influence the concentration and composition of microplastics and...
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Biologging as a potential platform for resolving ocean environmental issues and threats: Towards the development of the Internet of Animals
Available online 7 March 2025
Biologging is a method that utilizes animal-borne devices to study the behavioural ecology, physiology, and surrounding environment of animals. This is the Lagrangian observation method, which assigns...
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Progress in research on fish sex determining genes
February 2022
Research on fish sex determining genes and their mode of action is not only important for elucidating the mechanisms of vertebrate sex determination, but also for fish monosex control breeding. This...
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Aquatic pollution from truck spills: Urgent action needed in Brazil and beyond
Available online 18 February 2025
On 29 January 2024, a truck accident spilled concentrated sulfonic acid into a river in Brazil's State of Santa Catarina. This disaster, which occurred in a protected area, killed various types of fish...
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An overview of research efforts to understand the effects of underwater sound on cetaceans
April 2023
Cetaceans are aquatic mammals living in an environment that is more suited for hearing than vision. As such, their sensory systems largely utilize acoustic cues for navigation, communication, foraging,...
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Eggshell waste as a promising adsorbent for phosphorus recovery from wastewater: A review
January 2025
Phosphorus is a plant nutrient that is the main driving force of eutrophication, a serious type of water pollution. Various techniques and materials have been used to identify cost-effective, environmentally...
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Methodology for fish biodiversity monitoring with environmental DNA metabarcoding: The primers, databases and bioinformatic pipelines
February 2022
Environmental DNA (eDNA) originates from cellular material shed by organisms into aquatic or terrestrial environments and can be sampled and monitored using metabarcoding technology, which is revolutionizing...
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Evaluation of the influence of offshore wind farm noise on the fishes and dolphins in the Pearl River Estuary
January 2025
In this study, we recorded the noise radiating from a wind farm and evaluated its potential impact on the fishes and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) residing in the Pearl River Estuary....
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Recent insights into aquatic viruses: Emerging and reemerging pathogens, molecular features, biological effects, and novel investigative approaches
November 2022
Aquatic viruses are naturally present in the aquatic environment and the number of viruses is staggering. Various multicellular organisms in aquatic ecosystems may be infected, cross-species transmitted,...
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A One-Health approach to non-native species, aquaculture, and food security
April 2024
One-Health is an umbrella term that integrates the health of the environment, humans and non-human animals. This approach is applied here to elucidate the impact of non-native invasive species on aquaculture...
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Plastic occurrence, sources, and impacts in Antarctic environment and biota
May 2022
Several studies have documented that plastic pollution is affecting one of the most remote and pristine regions of our planet, Antarctica. Plastics of different size and polymeric composition have been...
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Evaluation of different primers of the 18S rRNA gene to profile amoeba communities in environmental samples
August 2022
Amoeboid protists, an assemblage of organisms belonging to different phylogenetic lineages, have drawn increasing attention due to their crucial ecological roles in various environments and their potential...
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Chinese wisdom and modern innovation of aquaculture
July 2024
Aquaculture originates from ancient Chinese wisdom, and is considered the most efficient food-producing industry. About 70 years ago, New China proposed an industrial approach to fish production and...
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A temperature-induced sex reversal mechanism in ricefield eels
Available online 2 January 2025
The ricefield eel (Monopterus albus), a protogynous hermaphrodite, is an important aquaculture freshwater fish in China. Intensive studies have focused on the sex reversal of this species, but the underlying...
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Taxonomic and functional diversity of protists in saline and hypersaline lakes in southern Western Siberia, a region strongly affected by climate change
January 2025
Climate change has had an unprecedented impact on lake ecosystems around the globe and has both direct and indirect consequences on lake structure and mineralization. These changes are threatening the...
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An updated range-wide assessment of Neophocaena: Threats and priorities for research and conservation
Available online 17 January 2025
The genus Neophocaena includes two species, the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise (N. phocaenoides) and the narrow-ridged finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis). The Indo-Pacific species is found in coastal...
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A review of potential conservation and fisheries benefits of breaching four dams in the Lower Snake River (Washington, USA)
May 2022
Abundances of important and imperiled fishes of the Snake River Basin continue to decline. We assessed the rationale for breaching the four lower Snake River Basin dams to prevent complete loss of these...
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Assemblage-based biomonitoring of freshwater ecosystem health via multimetric indices: A critical review and suggestions for improving their applicability
August 2022
Freshwater biota are more comprehensive and direct indicators of biological impacts, and more meaningful to the public than water quality or physical habitat surrogates. Freshwater biotic data and the...
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Rethinking fish biology and biotechnologies in the challenge era for burgeoning genome resources and strengthening food security
February 2022
Fish biology has been developed for more than 100 years, but some important breakthroughs have been made in the last decade. Early studies commonly concentrated on morphology, phylogenetics, development,...
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Overlooked eDNA contamination in human-influenced ecosystems: a call to manage large-scale false positives in biodiversity assessments
Available online 20 February 2025
The use of environmental DNA (eDNA) has significantly revolutionized studies in biodiversity science. A crucial innovation of eDNA-based biodiversity assessment is the ability to detect species through...
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Lipidome and proteome analyses provide insights into Mariana Trench Snailfish (Pseudoliparis swirei) adaptation to the hadal zone
October 2024
The hadal zone environment, characterized by extreme hydrostatic pressure, low temperatures, and limited food availability, presents substantial survival challenges for deep-sea fish species. In this...
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