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Juan Carlos Navarro is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research focuses on topics related to aquaculture nutrition and growth, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, algal biology and biofuel production, cephalopods and marine biology, and reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species.

The main fields of study Juan Carlos Navarro has contributed to are agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science. Within these fields, their work spans various subfields including aquatic science, global and planetary change, immunology, ecology, and biochemistry.

Juan Carlos Navarro has published research frequently in venues such as Aquaculture, Open Biology, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, and Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology.

Frequent coauthors of Juan Carlos Navarro include Óscar Monroig, Francisco Hontoria, Naoki Kabeya, L. Filipe C. Castro, and Inmaculada Varó.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Juan Carlos Navarro are:

  • Effect of virgin low density polyethylene microplastic ingestion on intestinal histopathology and microbiota of gilthead sea bream, 2021, Aquaculture
  • Unique fatty acid desaturase capacities uncovered in Hediste diversicolor illustrate the roles of aquatic invertebrates in trophic upgrading, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • A complete enzymatic capacity for biosynthesis of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22: 6n-3) exists in the marine Harpacticoida copepod Tigriopus californicus, 2021, Open Biology
  • Cloning and functional characterization of an elovl4-like gene involved in the biosynthesis of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in the swimming crab Portunus trituberculatus, 2020, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Can Artemia franciscana produce essential fatty acids? Unveiling the capacity of brine shrimp to biosynthesise long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, 2022, Aquaculture

Best Publications

  • Antioxidant enzyme activities and lipid peroxidation in the freshwater cladoceran Daphnia magna exposed to redox cycling compounds.

    Carlos Barata;Inma Varo;Juan Carlos Navarro;Solayan Arun

  • DIETARY DEFICIENCY OF DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID IMPAIRS VISION AT LOW LIGHT INTENSITIES IN JUVENILE HERRING (CLUPEA HARENGUS L.)

    Michael V. Bell;Robert S. Batty;James R. Dick;Karen Fretwell

  • Genes for de novo biosynthesis of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids are widespread in animals.

    Naoki Kabeya;Miguel M. Fonseca;David E. K. Ferrier;Juan Carlos Navarro

  • Biosynthesis of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Marine Invertebrates: Recent Advances in Molecular Mechanisms

    Oscar Monroig;Douglas R Tocher;Juan Carlos Navarro

  • Lipid and fatty acid composition of early stages of cephalopods : an approach to their lipid requirements

    Juan C Navarro;Roger Villanueva

  • High levels of vegetable oils in plant protein-rich diets fed to gilthead sea bream ( Sparus aurata L.): growth performance, muscle fatty acid profiles and histological alterations of target tissues.

    Laura Benedito-Palos;Juan C. Navarro;Ariadna Sitjà-Bobadilla;J. Gordon Bell

  • Lipid conversions during enrichment of Artemia

    Juan C Navarro;R.James Henderson;Lesley A McEvoy;Michael V Bell

  • The fatty acid composition of Octopus vulgaris paralarvae reared with live and inert food: deviation from their natural fatty acid profile.

    Juan Carlos Navarro;Roger Villanueva

  • Changes in antioxidant enzyme activities, fatty acid composition and lipid peroxidation in Daphnia magna during the aging process.

    Carlos Barata;Juan Carlos Navarro;Inma Varo;M. Carmen Riva

  • Lipids of some Caribbean and Red Sea corals: total lipid, wax esters, triglycerides and fatty acids

    A. D. Harland;J. C. Navarro;P. Spencer Davies;L. M. Fixter

  • West Nile virus, Venezuela.

    Irene Bosch;Flor Herrera;Juan-Carlos Navarro;Miguel Lentino

  • Effect of dichlorvos on cholinesterase activity of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

    I. Varò;J.C. Navarro;F. Amat;L. Guilhermino

  • Characterisation of cholinesterases and evaluation of the inhibitory potential of chlorpyrifos and dichlorvos to Artemia salina and Artemia parthenogenetica.

    I. Varó;J.C. Navarro;F. Amat;L. Guilhermino

  • Reproductive performance in male European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax, L.) fed two PUFA-enriched experimental diets: a comparison with males fed a wet diet

    Juan F. Asturiano;Lisa A. Sorbera;Manuel Carrillo;Silvia Zanuy

  • Induction of maturation and spermiation in the male European eel: assessment of sperm quality throughout treatment

    L. Pérez;J. F. Aturiano;A. Tomás;S. Zegrari

  • Bioaccumulation of chlorpyrifos through an experimental food chain: study of protein HSP70 as biomarker of sublethal stress in fish.

    I. Varó;R. Serrano;E. Pitarch;F. Amat

  • Two novel Anemia enrichment diets containing polar lipid

    L.A. McEvoy;J.C. Navarro;F. Hontoria;F. Amat

  • Aneuploidy study of human oocytes first polar body comparative genomic hybridization and metaphase II fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis

    C. Gutiérrez-Mateo;J. Benet;D. Wells;P. Colls

  • Diversification of substrate specificities in teleostei Fads2: Characterization of Δ4 and Δ6Δ5 desaturases of Chirostoma estor

    Jorge Fonseca-Madrigal;Juan Carlos Navarro;Francisco Hontoria;Douglas R Tocher

  • Decreased 20:4n − 620:5n − 3 ratio in sperm from cultured sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, broodstock compared with wild fish

    Michael V. Bell;James R. Dick;Mark Thrush;Juan Carlos Navarro

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco Amat
Francisco Amat Spanish National Research Council
Douglas R. Tocher
Douglas R. Tocher Shantou University
Jaume Pérez-Sánchez
Jaume Pérez-Sánchez Spanish National Research Council
John R. Sargent
John R. Sargent University of Stirling
Sadasivam Kaushik
Sadasivam Kaushik University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Cinta Porte
Cinta Porte Spanish National Research Council
José Antonio Odriozola
José Antonio Odriozola University of Seville
Félix Hernández
Félix Hernández Jaume I University
Miguel Ángel Centeno
Miguel Ángel Centeno Spanish National Research Council
Lúcia Guilhermino
Lúcia Guilhermino University of Porto

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