DAO publishes Research Articles, Reviews, and Notes, as well as Comments/Reply Comments (for details see DAO 48:161), Theme Sections and Opinion Pieces. For details consult the Guidelines for Authors. Papers may cover all forms of life - animals, plants and microorganisms - in marine, limnetic and brackish habitats. DAO's scope includes any research focusing on diseases in aquatic organisms, specifically:

-Diseases caused by coexisting organisms, e.g. viruses, bacteria, fungi, protistans, metazoans; characterization of pathogens

-Diseases caused by abiotic factors (critical intensities of environmental properties, including pollution)-

Diseases due to internal circumstances (innate, idiopathic, genetic)-

Diseases due to proliferative disorders (neoplasms)-

Disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention-

Molecular aspects of diseases-

Nutritional disorders-

Stress and physical injuries-

Epidemiology/epizootiology-

Parasitology-

Toxicology-

Diseases of aquatic organisms affecting human health and well-being (with the focus on the aquatic organism)-

Diseases as indicators of humanity's detrimental impact on nature-

Genomics, proteomics and metabolomics of disease-

Immunology and disease prevention-

Animal welfare-

Zoonosis

DAO 发表研究文章、评论和笔记，以及评论/回复评论（详情请参阅 DAO 48:161）、主题部分和观点文章。详情请参阅作者指南。论文可能涵盖海洋、淡水和咸水栖息地的所有生命形式 - 动物、植物和微生物。DAO 的范围包括任何关注水生生物疾病的研究，具体而言：

- 由共存生物引起的疾病，例如病毒、细菌、真菌、原生动物、后生动物；病原体的特征描述

-由非生物因素引起的疾病（环境特性的临界强度，包括污染）-

由于内部环境（先天、特发性、遗传）引起的疾病-

由于增生性疾病（肿瘤）引起的疾病-

疾病的诊断、治疗和预防-

疾病的分子方面-

营养障碍-

压力和身体伤害-

流行病学/流行病学-

寄生虫学-

毒理学-

影响人类健康和福祉的水生生物疾病（重点关注水生生物）-

疾病作为人类对环境有害影响的指标自然-

疾病的基因组学、蛋白质组学和代谢组学-

免疫学和疾病预防-

动物福利-

人畜共患病

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