Inaugural issue of Water Biology and Security now online

The inaugural issue of the journal Water Biology and Security has been published online. The issue includes an editorial, four review papers and five original research articles. All articles are freely available on ScienceDirect and we hope you enjoy reading them.

Editorial:

• Water Biology and Security – A new open-access platform for multidisciplinary research concerning freshwater and marine ecosystems
  Jian-Fang Gui, Robert M. Hughes

Review papers:

• Rethinking fish biology and biotechnologies in the challenge era for burgeoning genome resources and strengthening food security
  Jian-Fang Gui, Li Zhou, Xi-Yin Li
• Bright spots for inland fish and fisheries to guide future hydropower development
  William M. Twardek, Ian G. Cowx, Nicolas W.R. Lapointe et al.
• Methodology for fish biodiversity monitoring with environmental DNA metabarcoding: The primers, databases and bioinformatic pipelines
  Fan Xiong, Lu Shu, Honghui Zeng et al.
• Progress in research on fish sex determining genes
  Ji Chen, Zuoyan Zhu, Wei Hu

Research articles:

• Identification of a TGF-β1 homologue in the large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea) revealed its role in regulation of immune response
  Xiaofeng Li, Pengfei Mu, Yan Teng et al.
• Time-resolved and multi-tissue RNAseq provides new insights on the immune responses of European eels following infection with Aeromonas hydrophila
  Fan Xiong, Lu Cao, Jing Xiong et al.
• Long-term phosphorus reduction and phytoplankton responses in an urban lake (USA)
  Yuan Grund, Yangdong Pan, Mark Rosenkranz et al.
• Biodiversity of zooplankton in 0–3000 m waters from the eastern Indian Ocean in spring 2019 basedon metabarcoding
  Xia-Wen Cheng, Lan-Lan Zhang, Fei Gao et al.
• Freshwater snail and shrimp differentially affect water turbidity and benthic primary producers
  Yulun Guo, Peiyu Zhang, Jianlin Chen, Jun Xu