ReviewBiology letters2024
Are fish immunocompetent enough to face climate change?
Review in Biology letters, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Climate Change and Hydropower Impacts on Habitat Suitability of Endangered Schizothoracinae Fishes in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Viral Encephalopathy and Retinopathy in Dusky Groupers (Veterinary sciences · 2026Article
- Androgenic agricultural pollution suppresses immune function and alters reproductive allocation in eastern mosquitofish.Conservation physiology · 2026Article
- Assessment of water prophylaxis and biosafety in finfish aquaculture - current and emerging technologies.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Heritable differences in metabolic stability underpin thermal tolerance of threespine stickleback (bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Short-term fasting enhances the resistance of common carp (Veterinary world · 2025Article
- Novel Adomaviruses Associated with Blotchy Bass Syndrome in Black Basses (bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Pejerrey (Odontesthes bonariensis) Under Siege: Main Infectious Diseases and Their Role in Aquaculture and Wild Populations Amidst Environmental Change.Journal of fish diseases · 2025Review
- Chronic hypoxia has differential effects on constitutive and antigen-stimulated immune function in Atlantic salmon (Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Occurrence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes at various stages of different aquaculture modes surrounding Tai Lake, China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Sea lice (Frontiers in genetics · 2025Article
- Novel adomaviruses associated with blotchy bass syndrome in black basses (Micropterus spp.).PloS one · 2025Article
- Ecological diversification of sea catfishes is accompanied by genome-wide signatures of positive selection.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Effects of Hypoxia on the Antibacterial Activity of Epidermal Mucus from Chilean Meagre (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Are fish immunocompetent enough to face climate change?Biology letters · 2024Review
- Long-term environmental unpredictability increases social information use in zebrafish.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Ongoing climate change has already been associated with increased disease outbreaks in wild and farmed fish. Here, we evaluate the current knowledge of climate change-related ecoimmunology in teleosts with a focus on temperature, hypoxia, salinity and acidification before exploring interactive effects of multiple stressors. Our literature review reveals that acute and chronic changes in temperature and dissolved oxygen can compromise fish immunity which can lead to increased disease susceptibility. Moreover, temperature and hypoxia have already been shown to enhance the infectivity of certain pathogens/parasites and to accelerate disease progression. Too few studies exist that have focussed on acidification, but direct immune effects seem to be limited while salinity studies have led to contrasting results. Likewise, multi-stressor experiments essential for unravelling the interactions of simultaneously changing environmental factors are still scarce. This ultimately impedes our ability to estimate to what extent climate change will hamper fish immunity. Our review about epigenetic regulation mechanisms highlights the acclimation potential of the fish immune response to changing environments. However, due to the limited number of epigenetic studies, overarching conclusions cannot be drawn. Finally, we provide an outlook on how to better estimate the effects of realistic climate change scenarios in future immune studies in fish.
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