The interplay between nutrition and immune system is well recognised, however the true
integration of research between nutrition, animal energy status and immune function is still …

In recent years, with the advent of next-generation sequencing along with the development
of various bioinformatics tools, RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq)-based transcriptome analysis …

This book puts emphasis on the isolation, taxonomy, diagnosis (phenotypic, serology and
molecular biology), epizootiology, pathogenicity mechanisms, and methods of disease …

Intestine barrier serves as the front-line of shrimp defense, which rely on its structural
integrity, microbial composition, and mucus immune compounds. Mucins are the major …

Recent evidence suggests that natural selection operating on hosts to maintain their
microbiome contributes to the emergence of new species, that is, the 'hologenomic basis of …

Background Columnaris causes severe mortalities among many different wild and cultured
freshwater fish species, but understanding of host resistance is lacking. Catfish, the primary …

Metazoans were proposed to host bacteriophages on their mucosal surfaces in a symbiotic
relationship, where phages provide an external immunity against bacterial infections and the …

Previous studies have demonstrated that CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated genome editing and
transgenesis by integrating vector‐engineered antimicrobial peptide genes (AMGs) are …

The mucosal immune system serves as the frontline barriers of host defense against
pathogen infection, especially for the fishes, which are living in the pathogen rich aquatic …

A feeding experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of four strains of lactic acid
bacteria (LAB)[ie Lactobacillus plantarum LL11 (LP), Weissella confuse LS13 (WC) …