Fish and Aquatic Invertebrate Physiological Responses to Ammonia, Temperature, and Salinity Stress
This research community investigates how fish and crustaceans physiologically adapt to environmental stressors, specifically ammonia toxicity, temperature fluctuations, and salinity changes, to understand their metabolic limits and survival mechanisms.
The work centers on measuring oxygen consumption, metabolic rates, and gene expression in species such as silver pomfret, rainbow trout, Nile tilapia, and whiteleg shrimp. Researchers frequently examine the toxic effects of acute ammonia nitrogen exposure on gill tissue, liver function, and immune responses. The literature also explores the interplay between dietary nutrition, water quality parameters like sodium chloride and carbon dioxide, and the physiological stress responses of juvenile and adult aquatic animals. These studies aim to define the biochemical and molecular boundaries of aquatic life in changing environmental conditions.
The community is most prominent in research tracked for Calcium, where it represents 1.8% of all calcium-related papers, and Potassium, also at 1.8%. It contributes 5,340 papers to the calcium research base and 3,086 to the potassium base.
The community comprises 67,749 papers, with the highest publication volume in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, followed by the Journal of the American Chemical Society and The Lancet.
Recent work continues to focus on species-specific responses to ammonia toxicity, high-temperature stress in shrimp hepatopancreas, and the molecular mechanisms of adaptation to saline-alkaline water in various fish species.