Aquatic Animal Nutrition: A Mechanistic Perspective from Individuals to Generations

Aquatic Animal Nutrition

A comprehensive exploration of aquatic animal nutrition from individual organisms to successive generations. The book integrates aquatic ecology and aquaculture to examine how diet shapes the digestive tract, gut microbiota, behavior, stress resistance, reproduction, and long-term population health. It also identifies important gaps in nutritional research for farmed fish and invertebrates and explores how well-designed diets can improve broodstock and breeding outcomes.

Key Features:

• Explores the relationship between diet, digestion, and gut microbiota
• Examines how nutrition influences behavior and life-history traits
• Discusses the effects of starvation and nutritional stress
• Explores stress resistance and adaptation across generations
• Examines long-term effects of diet on successive generations
• Covers epigenetic and genetic effects of nutrition
• Integrates knowledge from marine biology, freshwater biology, and aquaculture
• Identifies research gaps in aquatic animal nutrition
• Examines nutritional strategies for farmed fish and invertebrates
• Discusses the role of nutrition in broodstock quality and breeding success
• Useful for aquaculture professionals, aquatic biologists, nutritionists, researchers, and students