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Georg Thaller

Georg Thaller

D-Index & Metrics

Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
46
Citations
8956
World Ranking
760
National Ranking
23

Georg Thaller 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 Georg Thaller sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 265 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Georg Thaller 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 Georg Thaller sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 46 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Georg Thaller is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans a variety of topics related to livestock genetics, diversity, and physiology.

The main areas of study for this scientist include:

  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Reproductive Physiology in Livestock
  • Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies

They have contributed to the subfields of Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, Animal Science and Zoology, Molecular Biology, and Cancer Research.

Thaller's recent publications reflect a focus on genetic background and diversity in livestock, metabolic disease relationships, and genomic methodologies. Some notable papers include:

  • "Assessing the genetic background and genomic relatedness of red cattle populations originating from Northern Europe," 2021, Genetics Selection Evolution
  • "Genetic analysis of production traits and body size measurements and their relationships with metabolic diseases in German Holstein cattle," 2022, Journal of Dairy Science
  • "Are scurs in heterozygous polled (Pp) cattle a complex quantitative trait?", 2020, Genetics Selection Evolution
  • "Genetic diversity and the application of runs of homozygosity-based methods for inbreeding estimation in German White-headed Mutton sheep," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "The Resilient Dairy Genome Project-A general overview of methods and objectives related to feed efficiency and methane emissions," 2023, Journal of Dairy Science

Frequent publication venues for their work include the Journal of Dairy Science, Genetics Selection Evolution, Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Animals, and PLoS ONE.

Thaller has collaborated extensively with a group of coauthors, contributing frequently alongside Jens Tetens, Christin Schmidtmann, Jörn Bennewitz, Clemens Falker-Gieske, and N. Krattenmacher.

Best Publications

  • Association of a lysine-232/alanine polymorphism in a bovine gene encoding acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT1) with variation at a quantitative trait locus for milk fat content.

    Andreas Winter;Wolfgang Krämer;Fabian A. O. Werner;Sonja Kollers

  • The impact of genetic relationship information on genomic breeding values in German Holstein cattle

    David Habier;Jens Tetens;Franz-Reinhold Seefried;Peter Lichtner

  • DGAT1, a new positional and functional candidate gene for intramuscular fat deposition in cattle.

    G. Thaller;C. Kühn;A. Winter;G. Ewald

  • Mapping quantitative trait loci for milk production and health of dairy cattle in a large outbred pedigree.

    Qin Zhang;Didier Boichard;Ina Hoeschele;Cynthia Ernst

  • A review on fish growth calculation: multiple functions in fish production and their specific application

    Vincent Lugert;Georg Thaller;Jens Tetens;Carsten Schulz

  • Effects of DGAT1 variants on milk production traits in German cattle breeds.

    G. Thaller;W. Krämer;A. Winter;B. Kaupe

  • The pattern of linkage disequilibrium in German Holstein cattle.

    Saber Qanbari;E C G Pimentel;J Tetens;Georg Thaller

  • A genome-wide scan for signatures of recent selection in Holstein cattle.

    S. Qanbari;E. C. G. Pimentel;J. Tetens;G. Thaller

  • Evidence for multiple alleles at the DGAT1 locus better explains a quantitative trait locus with major effect on milk fat content in cattle.

    Christa Kühn;Georg Thaller;Andreas Winter;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds

  • Application of site and haplotype-frequency based approaches for detecting selection signatures in cattle

    Saber Qanbari;Daniel Gianola;Ben J. Hayes;Flávio Schramm Schenkel

  • NMR metabolomic analysis of dairy cows reveals milk glycerophosphocholine to phosphocholine ratio as prognostic biomarker for risk of ketosis.

    Matthias S. Klein;Nina Buttchereit;Sebastian P. Miemczyk;Ann-Kathrin Immervoll

  • Detection and characterization of SNPs useful for identity control and parentage testing in major European dairy breeds

    F. A. O. Werner;G. Durstewitz;F. A. Habermann;G. Thaller

  • Impacts of both reference population size and inclusion of a residual polygenic effect on the accuracy of genomic prediction

    Zengting Liu;Franz R Seefried;Friedrich Reinhardt;Stephan Rensing

  • Evaluation of five lactation curve models fitted for fat:protein ratio of milk and daily energy balance.

    N. Buttchereit;E. Stamer;W. Junge;G. Thaller

  • A genome-wide association study indicates LCORL/NCAPG as a candidate locus for withers height in German Warmblood horses.

    J. Tetens;P. Widmann;C. Kühn;G. Thaller

  • Developing a 670k genotyping array to tag ~2M SNPs across 24 horse breeds.

    Robert J. Schaefer;Mikkel Schubert;Ernest Bailey;Danika L. Bannasch

  • Omics-based hybrid prediction in maize.

    Matthias Westhues;Tobias A. Schrag;Claas Heuer;Georg Thaller

  • The DGAT1 K232A Mutation Is Not Solely Responsible for the Milk Production Quantitative Trait Locus on the Bovine Chromosome 14

    J. Bennewitz;N. Reinsch;S. Paul;C. Looft

  • A genome scan for quantitative trait loci affecting milk production in Norwegian dairy cattle.

    H.G. Olsen;L. Gomez-Raya;D.I. Våge;I. Olsaker

  • Short communication: genetic relationships among daily energy balance, feed intake, body condition score, and fat to protein ratio of milk in dairy cows.

    N. Buttchereit;E. Stamer;W. Junge;G. Thaller

  • Y Chromosome Uncovers the Recent Oriental Origin of Modern Stallions

    Barbara Wallner;Nicola Palmieri;Claus Vogl;Doris Rigler

  • Identification and Dissection of Four Major QTL Affecting Milk Fat Content in the German Holstein-Friesian Population

    Xiaolong Wang;Christine Wurmser;Hubert Pausch;Simone Jung

  • Independent polled mutations leading to complex gene expression differences in cattle.

    Natalie Wiedemar;Jens Tetens;Vidhya Jagannathan;Annie Menoud

  • Exploration of relationships between production and fertility traits in dairy cattle via association studies of SNPs within candidate genes derived by expression profiling

    E. C. G. Pimentel;S. Bauersachs;M. Tietze;H. Simianer

  • Application of neural networks with back-propagation to genome-enabled prediction of complex traits in Holstein-Friesian and German Fleckvieh cattle.

    Anita Ehret;David Hochstuhl;Daniel Gianola;Georg Thaller

  • Reliability of genomic prediction for German Holsteins using imputed genotypes from low-density chips.

    D. Segelke;J. Chen;Z. Liu;F. Reinhardt

  • Mapping of quantitative trait loci for lactation persistency traits in German Holstein dairy cattle.

    B Harder;J Bennewitz;N Reinsch;G Thaller

  • Casein SNP in Norwegian goats: additive and dominance effects on milk composition and quality

    Binyam S Dagnachew;Georg Thaller;Sigbjørn Lien;Tormod Ådnøy

  • Genome-wide mapping of 10 calving and fertility traits in Holstein dairy cattle with special regard to chromosome 18

    M.-P. Müller;S. Rothammer;D. Seichter;I. Russ

  • A multi-Kinect cow scanning system: Calculating linear traits from manually marked recordings of Holstein-Friesian dairy cows

    Jennifer Salau;Jan H. Haas;Wolfgang Junge;Georg Thaller

  • Selection signatures in four German warmblood horse breeds: Tracing breeding history in the modern sport horse

    Wietje Nolte;Georg Thaller;Christa Kuehn;Christa Kuehn

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Tetens
Jens Tetens University of Göttingen
Jörn Bennewitz
Jörn Bennewitz University of Hohenheim
Tosso Leeb
Tosso Leeb University of Bern
Ernst Kalm
Ernst Kalm Kiel University
Ruedi Fries
Ruedi Fries Technical University of Munich
Gottfried Brem
Gottfried Brem University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Henner Simianer
Henner Simianer University of Göttingen
Molly E. McCue
Molly E. McCue University of Minnesota
Joachim Krieter
Joachim Krieter Kiel University
Matthias Leippe
Matthias Leippe Kiel University

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