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Aquatic Animal Nutrition: Organic Macro- and Micronutrients—‘Do Blind Men and Their Elephant Get Wet Feet?’

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This introductory chapter to organic macro- and micronutrients in aquatic animal nutrition points out recent highlights in identifying nutrient-triggered pathways. It stresses that, in the entire book, particular emphasis will put on the differentiation between esoteric and innovative research in the Kuhnian sense. Innovative research in aquatic animal nutrition has to go beyond production performance and consider aquatic animals as entire, individual ecosystems with complex controlling pathways, in which host-microbiota interactions are central. Therefore, this introduction eventually refers to the classical superorganism concept as guiding principle, recently specified to fishes as hologenomics concept.

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    It goes without saying that papers published in predatory journals did not find entry into Aquatic Animal Nutrition, provided that these journals have been identified as such. However, there are also journals, still listed in “The Directory of Open Access Journals,” who practice unbelievable short intervals between submission and acceptance of papers (often some 10 days) and still pretend to subject submissions to rigorous reviews. As long as these critical journals are listed in this directory, these papers have not been removed from this book.

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Steinberg, C.E.W. (2022). Aquatic Animal Nutrition: Organic Macro- and Micronutrients—‘Do Blind Men and Their Elephant Get Wet Feet?’. In: Aquatic Animal Nutrition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87227-4_1

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