“…The aptamers against some severe aquatic viruses, such as Singapore grouper iridovirus (Li et al, ; Li, Wei, et al, ; Li, Zhou, et al, ), red‐spotted grouper nervous necrosis virus (Zhou et al, ), Trachinotus ovatus NNV (Yu, Liu, Wei, et al, ), spring viraemia of carp virus (Yu et al, ), Hirame rhabdovirus virus (Hwang et al, ), viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (Punnarak et al, ) and soft‐shelled turtle iridovirus (Li, Wei, et al, ; Li, Zhou, et al, ), have been successfully generated. There are also kinds of aptamers generated against various bacterial targets, such as Lactobacillus acidophilus , V. parahaemolyticus and Salmonella typhimurium (Duan, Wu, Chen, Huang, & Wang, ; Duan et al, ), V. alginolyticus (Yu, Liu, Su, et al, ; Tang, Zheng, Yan, Li, & Li, ; Zheng et al, ), V. harveyi (Zheng, Hao, Song, & Liu, ) and Aeromonas hydrophila (Li, Wang, Chen, & Li, ). Aptamers have been widely applied in different important research areas, including drug‐specific delivery (Loo et al, ; Zhao et al, ), pathogen diagnosis (Li et al, ; Li, Wei, et al, ; Li, Zhou, et al, ; Teng et al, ; Yu, Liu, Wei, et al, ; Zhou et al, ), toxin analysis (Huang et al, ; Yan et al, ) and disease pathogenesis research (Bunka & Stockley, ).…”