Recently,Flatfish Metamorphosis, an English monograph written by Professor Bao Baolong of the College of Fisheries and Life Science of SHOU, was officially published by the Springer Nature Press (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-7859-3). The book consists of 10 chapters with 296 pages in total, covering the regulatory mechanisms of metamorphosis events in flatfish (Flounder paralichthys), such as eye migration, frontal bone deformation, dorsal fin development, increased body size, and asymmetric body colors. In particular, the developmental, genetic, and evolutionary mechanisms of eye migration, the most unique metamorphosis event in flatfish, were revealed and discussed in depth. A theoretical explanation was also given of malpigmentation, another increasingly common metamorphosis event in flatfish aquaculture, from the perspective of environmental and genetic interactions. This monograph collects the research results of Bao Baolong’s Team and relevant collaborators on the regulatory mechanism of flatfish metamorphosis over 20 years, and presents the author’s thoughts on subsequent research. Professor Liu Zhanjiang, Vice President of Syracuse University, has written a foreword for the monograph.
The English monograph, published by the Springer Nature Press, a world-famous publishing house, is a result of first-class discipline construction in aquaculture. It marks that SHOU is at the forefront of the world in the research field of flatfish metamorphosis. The systematic and innovative research achievements made by Bao Baolong’s Team in the research field of flatfish metamorphosis over the past two decades have received long-term support from the first-class discipline construction of SHOU, two rounds of “Shanghai Innovative Team”, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. They are also inseparable from the Team’s close cooperation with many domestic and foreign counterparts, such as the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Fudan University, Auburn University.