Thirty Years of Change: Assessing the Dynamics of Fish Communities in Daya Bay, a Semi-enclosed Coastal Ecosystem of the South China Sea
Available online 25 April 2024
Daya Bay is a semi-enclosed bay in the South China Sea which is a coastal ecosystem with significant ecological and economic value that is subjected to a variety of anthropogenic disturbances. However,...
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Spatiotemporal variation of microeukaryotic biodiversity and biotic condition associated with disinfectants after the COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China
Available online 17 April 2024
Intensive application of chlorine-based disinfectants driven by the COVID-19 pandemic was suspected to be detrimental to receiving water ecosystems, but with little field evidence. We characterized...
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A novel cell line established from skin tissue of gibel carp (Carassius gibelio) is susceptible to Carassius auratus herpesvirus infection
Available online 6 April 2024
Frequent outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases in fish, such as Carassius auratus herpesvirus (CaHV) infection has caused great economic losses in China. However, the lack of a sensitive cell culture...
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Characterization of stmn1a and genetic effects of a 22-bp Indel in its promoter region of bighead carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis
Available online 4 April 2024
Stathmin 1 (stmn1) gene, which is involved in the control of cell cycle progression, cell proliferation, differentiation and motility, is a crucial relay in the signal transduction of multiple signaling...
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A droplet digital PCR method (ddPCR) for sensitive detection and quantification of Carassius auratus herpesvirus (CaHV)
Available online 1 April 2024
Carassius auratus herpesvirus (CaHV) is a pathogen isolated from crucian carp (Carassius auratus) associated with high mortality. A diagnosis method that can detect the virus at an early stage, specifically...
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Moving bed biofilm reactor for Pimelodus maculatus reared in RAS: Start-up maturation, bioreactor microbiome and nitrogen removal
Available online 28 March 2024
Moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBR) are equipment used to remove organic compounds and are frequently tested for aquaculture operations aimed at treating and reusing water. However, a limitation of MBBR...
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A one-health approach to non-native species, aquaculture, and food security
Available online 18 March 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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Characteristics of microbial communities and antibiotic resistance genes in typical rivers of the western Qinghai Lake basin
Available online 6 March 2024
Environmental factors and anthropogenic activity are key factors that shape the distribution of bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in natural environments. However, few studies have focused...
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The crucial role of fish mucus in regulating progeny inflammation and microbial homeostasis
Available online 15 February 2024
Maternal immunity plays a vital role in protecting offspring from pathogen invasion, and it is present in nearly all vertebrates. As the most ancient vertebrates, teleost fish continuously secrete a...
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Cladophora as ecological engineer: A new test from the largest lake of Qinghai-Tibet plateau with filamentous algal blooms
January 2024
Filamentous algae blooms (FABs) have been increasing globally in recent years, and their presence can have both harmful and beneficial effects on aquatic ecosystems. As one of the most common FABs,...
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Diet variability of snappers (Teleostei: Lutjanidae) in a bay-to-reef ecosystem of the Mexican Caribbean
January 2024
Fishes use environmental resources differently. Snapper ontogenic movements among coastal habitats lead to diverse diets. We investigated the diets of seven snapper species (Lutjanus apodus, L. analis,...
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Estimating SVCV waterborne transmission and predicting experimental epidemic development: A modeling study using a machine learning approach
January 2024
Viral infectious diseases significantly threaten the sustainability of freshwater fish aquaculture. The lack of studies on epidemic transmission patterns and mechanisms inhibits the development of containment...
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Bio-ecological remediation of freshwater aquaculture environments: A systematic review and bibliometric analysis
January 2024
Freshwater aquaculture plays an important role in the global aquaculture industry. The success of freshwater aquaculture relies on the integration of bio-ecological remediation technologies to ensure...
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Assessments and diagnoses of aquatic ecosystem integrity based on integrity requirements of ecosystem service targets
January 2024
This paper critically reviews the progress in ecosystem integrity (health) assessment of inland waters and provides future directions for assessment. Current biotic integrity assessments mainly use...
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Assessment of water quality using benthic diatom and macroinvertebrate assemblages: A case study in an East China canal
January 2024
The East Zhejiang Canal is an artificial waterway located in the plains of East China. Because of its role in providing social services, it is frequently subjected to human activities affecting its...
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Plastic effects on marine and freshwater environments
January 2024
In the 1930s, plastic items started to acquire popularity. Since then, they have overcome many barriers and are now important to many facets of society. Post-consumer plastic, however, is an environmental...
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Bloom-forming cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates in five Argentinian reservoirs: Multi-year sampling
January 2024
Harmful algal blooms are important threats to reservoir condition. Over a 15-year period, we sampled five Argentinian reservoirs to identify the responsible species for harmful algal blooms and determine...
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Effects of environmentally relevant concentrations of micro(nano)plastics on aquatic microorganisms: Changes in potential function but not in overall composition
January 2024
Micro(nano)plastics (MNPs) are a growing problem as persistent environmental pollutants. Here, we investigated the impact of MNPs on microorganisms in aquatic microbial floc exposed to NPs (80 nm)...
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Multi-species probiotics enhance survival, growth, intestinal microbiota and disease resistance of rohu (Labeo rohita) larvae
January 2024
Multi-strain probiotics provide the most dependable approaches to improve health, immune response, and disease resistance in farmed fishes. In the present study, we examined the effects of multi-species...
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Plastic pollution in marine and freshwater biota
Available online 21 January 2024
Plastic pollution is now recognised as a growing concern for both the environment and associated biota. Consequently, a plethora of scientific reports are being produced regarding the occurrence, distribution,...
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The LxIS motif is the language between virus and host RLRs: From fish to mammalian viruses
Available online 12 January 2024
Regulation of host interferon (IFN) production is a crucial strategy for viral immune escape. We propose that the LxIS motif language, a marker for exogenous viral proteins, interacts with host retinoic...
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Zebrafish usp3 loss promotes hypoxic tolerance by disrupting deubiquitination of K63-polyubiquitinated hif-1αa
Available online 6 January 2024
The hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-mediated hypoxia signaling pathway influences oxygen homeostasis in aerobic organisms. This pathway is regulated by several other pathways. Elucidation of its regulation...
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Variation of blubber thickness of the Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) in human care: Adaptation to environmental temperature
October 2023
Blubber thickness (BT) has a seasonal pattern in most small cetaceans in temperate and polar regions, which may be a crucial adaptive mechanism in response to environmental temperature changes. However,...
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Reduced pigmentation and thyroid hormone disruption in zebrafish embryos caused by industrial sludge near Bohai Bay, China
October 2023
In recent years, pollution caused by the discharge of industrial wastewater into Bohai Bay has posed a potential threat to the health of surrounding residents. Sludge was collected from the outlet of...
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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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