User profiles for Maria Nayfa

Maria G. Nayfa, PhD

Benchmark Genetics
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[HTML][HTML] Comparing Genomic Signatures of Selection Between the Abbassa Strain and Eight Wild Populations of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Egypt

MG Nayfa, DB Jones, JAH Benzie, DR Jerry… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Domestication to captive rearing conditions, along with targeted selective breeding have
genetic consequences that vary from those in wild environments. Nile tilapia (Oreochromis …

Positive genetic associations among fitness traits support evolvability of a reef‐building coral under multiple stressors

RM Wright, H Mera, CD Kenkel, M Nayfa… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change threatens organisms in a variety of interactive ways that requires
simultaneous adaptation of multiple traits. Predicting evolutionary responses requires an …

[HTML][HTML] Unravelling the effects of gene flow and selection in highly connected populations of the silver-lip pearl oyster (Pinctada maxima)

MG Nayfa, KR Zenger - Marine genomics, 2016 - Elsevier
Many marine organisms often display weak levels of population genetic structuring as a result
of both environmental characteristics (eg, ocean currents) and life history traits (eg, widely …

Pipette and paper: combining molecular and genealogical methods to assess a Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) breeding program

MG Nayfa, DB Jones, CE Lind, JAH Benzie, DR Jerry… - Aquaculture, 2020 - Elsevier
Aquaculture selective breeding programs employ a closed nucleus mating strategy whereby
animals displaying sought-after characteristics are mated to produce next generation …

The GIFT that keeps on giving? A genetic audit of the Fijian Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) broodstock nucleus 20 years after introduction

MM Lal, SS Waqairatu, KR Zenger, MG Nayfa… - Aquaculture, 2021 - Elsevier
The Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) strain of Nile tilapia is a valuable global
freshwater aquaculture commodity, forming the basis of the Fiji Islands' largest freshwater …

[PDF][PDF] Abbassa Tilapia breeding program

A Nasr-Allah, A Elewa, M Nayfa - 2022 - cgspace.cgiar.org
A selective breeding program was initiated in 2001 at Abbassa—Egypt to develop and produce
a genetically improved Nile tilapia which was to be referred to as “Genetically Improved …

Going with the Flow: Understanding Population Dynamics of Malabar Red Snapper (Lutjanus Malabaricus) in the Indo-Pacific

S Vij, MG Nayfa, B Liang, J Koh, NT Vu… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
Globally, tropical snappers are commercially important food fishes whose main production
sources are capture fisheries, with only approximately 3% of production being attributed to …

Domestication in aquaculture fishes-elucidating the genetic consequences in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

MG Nayfa - 2020 - researchonline.jcu.edu.au
Maria Nayfa investigated the effects of domestication on the Abassa Strain of Nile tilapia. She
found that despite high error rates in pedigree records, the Abassa Strain is salvageable, …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic diversity study of Asian seabass Lates calcarifer from Bangladesh

SJ Hasan, JA Domingos, M Nayfa, J Goldsbury… - researchgate.net
The study aimed to investigate the level of genetic variation within and between populations
of Asian seabass, Lates calcarifer from different regions of Bangladesh, as well as in …

[PDF][PDF] Positive genetic associations among fitness traits support evolvability of a reef-building coral under multiple stressors

M MATZ, RM WRIGHT, H MERA, M NAYFA, LK BAY… - 2019 - scholar.archive.org
25 Climate change threatens organisms in a variety of interactive ways that requires
simultaneous 26 adaptation of multiple traits. Predicting evolutionary responses requires an …