ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology2013
The skin of fish as a transport epithelium: a review.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 142 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Health-Promoting Phytobiotic-Based Feed Additive Improves Skin and Gill Proteome Response of Infected Fish.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
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- The epidermal ecotone: a proposed model system for marine viral ecology at the animal-environmental interface.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Review
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- INHAND: Non-proliferative and proliferative lesions of fish - Chapter 7. Fish integumentary system.Journal of toxicologic pathology · 2026Article
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- Histology and morphometry of the skin of purple spaghetti-eel Moringua raitaborua (Anguilliformes, Moringuidae).Applied microscopy · 2023Article
- Effects of chemical cues and prior experience on predator avoidance in crayfish.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Current Status of Probiotics in European Sea Bass Aquaculture as One Important Mediterranean and Atlantic Commercial Species: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Declining metabolic scaling parallels an ontogenetic change from elongate to deep-bodied shapes in juvenile Brown trout.Current zoology · 2023Article
- Host biology, ecology and the environment influence microbial biomass and diversity in 101 marine fish species.Nature communications · 2022Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The primary function of fish skin is to act as a barrier. It provides protection against physical damage and assists with the maintenance of homoeostasis by minimising exchange between the animal and the environment. However in some fish, the skin may play a more active physiological role. This is particularly true in species that inhabit specialised environmental niches (e.g. amphibious and air-breathing fish such as the lungfish), those with physiological characteristics that may subvert the need for the integument as a barrier (e.g. the osmoconforming hagfish), and/or fish with anatomical modifications of the epidermis (e.g. reduced epithelial thickness). Using examples from different fish groups (e.g. hagfishes, elasmobranchs and teleosts), the importance of fish skin as a transport epithelium for gases, ions, nitrogenous waste products, and nutrients was reviewed. The role of the skin in larval fish was also examined, with early life stages often utilising the skin as a surrogate gill, prior to the development of a functional branchial epithelium.
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