Lal, Monal M., Waqairatu, Salote S., Zenger, Kyall R., Nayfa, Maria G., Pickering, Timothy D., Singh, Avinash, and Southgate, Paul C. (2021) The GIFT that keeps on giving? A genetic audit of the Fijian Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) broodstock nucleus 20 years after introduction. Aquaculture, 537. 736524.

Nayfa, Maria G., Jones, Dave B., Benzie, John A.H., Jerry, Dean R., and Zenger, Kyall R. (2020) Comparing genomic signatures of selection between the Abbassa Strain and eight wild populations of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Egypt. Frontiers in Genetics, 11. 567969.

Nayfa, Maria G., Jones, David B., Lind, Curtis E., Benzie, John A.H., Jerry, Dean R., and Zenger, Kyall R. (2020) Pipette and paper: combining molecular and genealogical methods to assess a Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) breeding program. Aquaculture, 523. 735171.

Nayfa, Maria George (2020) Domestication in aquaculture fishes - elucidating the genetic consequences in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Wright, Rachel M., Mera, Hanaka, Kenkel, Carly D., Nayfa, Maria, Bay, Line K., and Matz, Mikhail V. (2019) Positive genetic associations among fitness traits support evolvability of a reef-building coral under multiple stressors. Global Change Biology, 25 (10). pp. 3294-3304.

Nayfa, Maria G., and Zenger, Kyall R. (2016) Unravelling the effects of gene flow and selection in highly connected populations of the silver-lip pearl oyster (Pinctada maxima). Marine Genomics, 28. pp. 99-106.