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Tilapia: the plain truth (Arabic version)
Type: Poster
Infographic on the benefits on the power of selective breeding to fish.
Extension manual on mono sex tilapia production and management: Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Aquaculture Compact
Type: Manual
This material has been put together to assist extension workers and other trainers in facilitating and delivering improved technologies to catfish breeders to ensure profitable ventures. The contents are in simple terms ...
Farmed tilapia: A nutritious food source for Egypt
Type: Poster
Infographic on farmed tilapia as a nutritious food source in Egypt.
Fish for a food secure and prosperous Egypt
Type: Poster
Infographic on farmed tilapia as a nutritious food source in Egypt.
Species composition in the Molobicus hybrid tilapia strain
Type: Journal Article
The “Molobicus” hybrid breeding programme was initiated to improve tilapia growth performance in brackish water. The base population was created by backcrossing F1 Oreochromis niloticus GIFT strains × feral O. mossambicus ...
Establishment of a Satellite Nucleus of the GIFT Strain at Rajiv Gandhi Center for Aquaculture (RGCA), India: Phase II. Project Brief April 2019 - March 2020
Type: Brief
This brief highlights the major project achievements in line with the FISH Research Program strategic goals and indicators. The brief was produced taking as reference the technical report of the project submitted to the ...
Practical training manual: Tilapia breeding and all-male fry production
Type: Manual
This is an updated second version of an English language training manual which details how to breed tilapia in synchronous batches and to produce all-male tilapia seed.
Breeding for robustness: Investigating the genotype-by-environment interaction and micro-environmental sensitivity of Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
Type: Journal Article
The objectives of this study were (i) to quantify the degree of G x E by assessing the growth performance of Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) across three countries (Malaysia, India and China) and (ii) to quantify ...
Closing the yield gap: improving production efficiency in smallholder farms of Nile tilapia through selective breeding
Type: Thesis
The aim of this thesis was to optimise the breeding program of Nile tilapia for a smallholder production system, thereby contributing to closing the yield gap. From Chapter 2 to 4, we generated information that can be used ...
Pipette and paper: Combining molecular and genealogical methods to assess a Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) breeding program
Type: Journal Article
The paper compared molecular and paper records of pedigrees in a Nile tilapia breeding program, the Abbassa line in Egypt. It established a novel pipeline of checks and balances based on molecular data to correct erroneous ...