Aquaculture faces numerous challenges, with stress being one of the major issues that lead to growth loss, metabolic disorders, weakened immunity, redox imbalance, and organ damage in aquatic animals. Nutritional intervention is one of the effective strategies to address these problems. Traditional research has primarily focused on the impacts of a single stressor on specific aspects of particular aquatic animal species. Howev...

The cover image is based on the article Stress Nutrition in Aquatic Animals: From Definition to Practice by Zhigang Zhou et al., https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.70091 . image

The cover image is based on the Review Article Immune disorders induced by improper use of dietary immunostimulants in aquatic animals: Research progress and prospective solutions by targeting gut microbiota by Qingshuang Zhang and Hongwei Yang et al., https://doi.org/10.1111/raq.12852 . [Correction added on 27 March 2024, after first online publication: Cover image has been changed] image

Immunostimulants were widely used in aquafeed due to their multiple important functions, including promoting growth, enhancing non‐specific defence mechanisms and resisting infectious diseases. But the efficiencies of the positive effects of immunostimulants were affected by the duration of the administration and their dose. Short‐term and normal‐dose of immunostimulants promoted the growth and enhance non‐specific immunity of...

Probiotics confer a health benefit on the host and could be used as a good alternative to antibiotics. Probiotics are strain‐specific when exerting their function, so it is necessary to identify them to strain level. In recent years, intra‐species molecular typing and identification methods have developed rapidly, which commonly are used for typing the main pathogenic bacteria and rare for studies on probiotic typing, whilst i...

Aquaculture is a fast‐growing and rapidly expanding industry in the world. Probiotics are widely used in aquaculture and have provided benefits to aquatic animal health, and it is also a promising alternative to antibiotics for control of fish diseases. With the development of biotechnology, new expression systems and novel techniques for the surface display of heterologous proteins in surface of probiotics cells have been dev...

The gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota of vertebrates plays critical roles in nutrition, development, immunity and resistance against invasive pathogens. In the past decade, research of the GI microbiota of mammals has drastically increased our knowledge on the microbiota and their relationship with health and disease. However, our understanding of fish intestinal microbiota is limited. This review provides an overview of resear...