Jesús Navas Castillo
Associate professor
Department of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology
Universidad de Malaga
Spain
Biography
Jesús Navas Castillo holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Granada and a doctor (1991) from the Universitat de València. It is CSIC Research Scientist bound at the Institute of Horticulture Subtropical and Mediterranean "La Mayora" (IHSM-UMA-CSIC) and Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Genetics and Physiology Professor. His scientific career has been completed stays at the Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire (INRA - Université de Bordeaux II, France), the Station de Pathologie Végétale (INRA Montfavet, France) and the Citrus Research and Education Center (CREC, University of Florida, United States).
Research Interest
The study of ecological, biological, genetic and molecular aspects of whitefly virus that cause emerging diseases in horticultural crops
Publications
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Fiallo-Olivé E, MartÃnez-Zubiaur Y, Moriones E, Navas-Castillo J. A novel class of DNA satellites associated with New World begomoviruses. Virology. 2012 Apr 25;426(1):1-6.
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Fortes IM, Navas-Castillo J. Potato, an experimental and natural host of the crinivirus Tomato chlorosis virus. European journal of plant pathology. 2012 Sep 1;134(1):81-6.
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Albuquerque LC, Inoue-Nagata AK, Pinheiro B, Resende RO, Moriones E, Navas-Castillo J. Genetic diversity and recombination analysis of sweepoviruses from Brazil. Virology journal. 2012 Oct 20;9(1):241.
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Fiallo-Olivé E, Hamed A, Navas-Castillo J, Moriones E. Cotton leaf curl Gezira alphasatellite associated with tomato leaf curl Sudan virus approaches the expected upper size limit in the evolution of alphasatellites. Virus research. 2013 Dec 26;178(2):506-10.
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Fiallo-Olivé E, Chirinos DT, Geraud-Pouey F, Moriones E, Navas-Castillo J. Complete genome sequences of two begomoviruses infecting weeds in Venezuela. Archives of virology. 2013 Jan 1;158(1):277-80.
