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D-Index
35
Citations
6123
World Ranking
1692
National Ranking
489

Eduardo Casas publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eduardo Casas sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 99 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Eduardo Casas D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eduardo Casas sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 35 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Bouffault International Animal Agriculture Award, American Society of Animal Science

Overview

Eduardo Casas is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research focus lies primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Casas's work encompasses multiple subfields including Microbiology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Genetics, Immunology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

The main topics addressed in Casas's publications are:

  • Microbial infections and disease research
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Frequent publication venues for Casas include:

  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • PLoS ONE
  • Microbiology Spectrum
  • BMC Research Notes

Notable recent papers authored by Casas or involving their collaboration include:

  • "Multivariate analysis as a method to evaluate antigenic relationships between BVDV vaccine and field strains," 2020, Vaccine
  • "Novel genes involved in the genetic architecture of temperament in Brahman cattle," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Case report: characterization of a persistent, treatment-resistant, novel Staphylococcus aureus infection causing chronic mastitis in a Holstein dairy cow," 2020, BMC Veterinary Research
  • "Protection against Mycoplasma bovis infection in calves following intranasal vaccination with modified-live Mannheimia haemolytica expressing Mycoplasma antigens," 2021, Microbial Pathogenesis
  • "Bovine NK-lysin peptides exert potent antimicrobial activity against multidrug-resistant Salmonella outbreak isolates," 2021, Scientific Reports

Eduardo Casas has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Rohana P. Dassanayake
  • Shollie M. Falkenberg
  • Fred M. Tatum
  • Hao Ma
  • Robert E. Briggs

In 2011, Casas received the Bouffault International Animal Agriculture Award from the American Society of Animal Science.

Best Publications

  • Effects of calpastatin and micro-calpain markers in beef cattle on tenderness traits.

    E. Casas;S. N. White;T. L. Wheeler;S. D. Shackelford

  • Evaluation of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in CAPN1 for association with meat tenderness in cattle.

    B. T. Page;E. Casas;M. P. Heaton;N. G. Cullen

  • Quantitative trait loci affecting growth and carcass composition of cattle segregating alternate forms of myostatin.

    E Casas;S D Shackelford;J W Keele;R T Stone

  • Coordinated international action to accelerate genome-to-phenome with FAANG, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes project

    Leif Andersson;Leif Andersson;Alan L. Archibald;Cynthia D. Bottema;Rudiger Brauning

  • Detection of quantitative trait loci for growth and carcass composition in cattle.

    E. Casas;S. D. Shackelford;J. W. Keele;M. Koohmaraie

  • Assessment of single nucleotide polymorphisms in genes residing on chromosomes 14 and 29 for association with carcass composition traits in Bos indicus cattle

    E. Casas;S. N. White;D. G. Riley;T. P. L. Smith

  • Selection and use of SNP markers for animal identification and paternity analysis in U.S. beef cattle.

    Michael P. Heaton;Gregory P. Harhay;Gary L. Bennett;Roger T. Stone

  • Association of markers in the bovine CAPN1 gene with meat tenderness in large crossbred populations that sample influential industry sires.

    B. T. Page;E. Casas;R. L. Quaas;R. M. Thallman

  • A new single nucleotide polymorphism in CAPN1 extends the current tenderness marker test to include cattle of Bos indicus, Bos taurus, and crossbred descent.

    S. N. White;E. Casas;T. L. Wheeler;S. D. Shackelford

  • Association of the muscle hypertrophy locus with carcass traits in beef cattle.

    E. Casas;J. W. Keele;S. D. Shackelford;M. Koohmaraie

  • Bovine CAPN1 maps to a region of BTA29 containing a quantitative trait locus for meat tenderness.

    T. P. L. Smith;E. Casas;C. E. Rexroad;S. M. Kappes

  • Sequence Evaluation of Four Pooled-Tissue Normalized Bovine cDNA Libraries and Construction of a Gene Index for Cattle

    Timothy P.L. Smith;William M. Grosse;Brad A. Freking;Andrew J. Roberts

  • A comprehensive search for quantitative trait loci affecting growth and carcass composition of cattle segregating alternative forms of the myostatin gene.

    E Casas;R T Stone;J W Keele;S D Shackelford

  • Quantitative analysis of birth, weaning, and yearling weights and calving difficulty in Piedmontese crossbreds segregating an inactive myostatin allele.

    Eduardo Casas;John W. Keele;Scott C. Fahrenkrug;Timothy P. L. Smith

  • Identification of quantitative trait loci for growth and carcass composition in cattle.

    E. Casas;J. W. Keele;S. D. Shackelford;M. Koohmaraie

  • Linkage mapping bovine EST-based SNP

    Warren M Snelling;Eduardo Casas;Roger T Stone;John W Keele

  • The effects of Piedmontese inheritance and myostatin genotype on the palatability of longissimus thoracis, gluteus medius, semimembranosus, and biceps femoris.

    T. L. Wheeler;S. D. Shackelford;E. Casas;L. V. Cundiff

  • Association of myostatin on early calf mortality, growth, and carcass composition traits in crossbred cattle.

    E. Casas;G. L. Bennett;T. P. L. Smith;L. V. Cundiff

  • Prevalence of the prion protein gene E211K variant in U.S. cattle.

    Michael P Heaton;John W Keele;Gregory P Harhay;Jürgen A Richt

  • QTL affecting body weight in a candidate region of cattle chromosome 5

    Mariana B. B. Machado;Maurício M. Alencar;Andréa P. Pereira;Henrique Nunes de Oliveira

  • Putative quantitative trait loci associated with the probability of contracting infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis.

    E. Casas;R. T. Stone

  • Assessing the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms at the thyroglobulin gene with carcass traits in beef cattle.

    E. Casas;S. N. White;S. D. Shackelford;T. L. Wheeler

  • Evaluation in beef cattle of six deoxyribonucleic acid markers developed for dairy traits reveals an osteopontin polymorphism associated with postweaning growth

    S N White;E Casas;M F Allan;J W Keele

  • Use of bovine EST data and human genomic sequences to map 100 gene-specific bovine markers

    Roger T. Stone;W. Michael Grosse;Eduardo Casas;Timothy P.L. Smith

  • Identification of genetic markers for fat deposition and meat tenderness on bovine chromosome 5: development of a low-density single nucleotide polymorphism map.

    R. T. Stone;E. Casas;T. P. L. Smith;J. W. Keele

  • A Review of Selected Genes with Known Effects on Performance and Health of Cattle.

    Eduardo Casas;Marcus E. Kehrli

  • Opportunities and challenges from the use of genomic selection for beef cattle breeding in Latin America

    Hugo H. Montaldo;Eduardo Casas;José Bento Sterman Ferraz;Vicente E. Vega-Murillo

  • Evaluation of Dorset, Finnsheep, Romanov, Texel, and Montadale breeds of sheep: II. Reproduction of F 1 ewes in fall mating seasons

    B. A. Freking;K. A. Leymaster;E. Casas

  • Growth and pubertal development of F1 bulls from Hereford, Angus, Norwegian Red, Swedish Red and White, Friesian, and Wagyu sires.

    E. Casas;D. Lunstra;Larry V. Cundiff;Johny Joe Ford

  • μ-Calpain, calpastatin, and growth hormone receptor genetic effects on preweaning performance, carcass quality traits, and residual variance of tenderness in Angus cattle selected to increase minor haplotype and allele frequencies.

    R. G. Tait;S. D. Shackelford;T. L. Wheeler;D. A. King

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven D. Shackelford
Steven D. Shackelford Agricultural Research Service
Timothy P. L. Smith
Timothy P. L. Smith Agricultural Research Service
John W. Keele
John W. Keele Agricultural Research Service
Gary L. Bennett
Gary L. Bennett Agricultural Research Service
Mohammad Koohmaraie
Mohammad Koohmaraie IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group
Larry V. Cundiff
Larry V. Cundiff Agricultural Research Service
Timothy A. Reinhardt
Timothy A. Reinhardt Agricultural Research Service
Larry A. Kuehn
Larry A. Kuehn Agricultural Research Service
R. M. Thallman
R. M. Thallman US Department of Agriculture
Julia F. Ridpath
Julia F. Ridpath Agricultural Research Service

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