Selected Publications

o  Wagner GP, Bürger R (1985) On the evolution of dominance modifiers II. A non-equilibrium approach to genetic systems. J. Theor. Biol. 113, 475-500

o  Bürger R (1988) Perturbations of positive semigroups and applications to population genetics. Math. Zeitschrift 197, 259-272

o  Bürger R, Wagner GP, Stettinger F (1989) How much heritable variation can be maintained in finite populations by mutation-selection balance? Evolution 43, 1748-1766

o  Bürger R (1991) Moments, cumulants, and polygenic dynamics. J. Math. Biol. 30, 199-213

o  Bürger R, Lande R (1994) On the distribution of the mean and variance of a quantitative trait under mutation-selection-drift balance. Genetics 138, 901-912

o  Bürger R, Ewens WJ (1995) Fixation probabilities of additive alleles in diploid populations. J. Math. Biol. 33, 557-575

o  Bürger R, Lynch M (1995) Evolution and extinction in a changing environment: a quantitative genetic analysis. Evolution 49, 151-163

o  Lynch M, Conery J, Bürger R (1995) Mutation accumulation and the extinction of small populations. Amer. Natur. 146, 489-518

o  Bürger R (1999) Evolution of genetic variability and the advantage of sex and recombination in changing environments. Genetics 153, 1055-1069

o  Bürger R (2000)  The Mathematical Theory of Selection, Recombination, and Mutation. Chichester: John Wiley& Sons

o  Bürger R, Gimelfarb A (2002) Fluctuating environments and the role of mutation in maintaining quantitative genetic variation. Genet. Research 80, 31-46

o  Bürger R (2005) A multilocus analysis of intraspecific competition and stabilizing selection on a quantitative trait. J. Math. Biol. 50, 355-396

o  Bürger R, Schneider KA, Willensdorfer M (2006) The conditions for speciation through intraspecific competition. Evolution 60, 2185-2206

o  Willensdorfer M, Bürger R, Nowak MA (2007) Phenotypic mutation rates and the abundance of abnormal proteins in yeast. PLoS Comput. Biol. 3(11), e203. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030203

o  Bürger R (2009) Multilocus selection in subdivided populations II: Maintenance of polymorphism under weak or strong migration. J. Math. Biol. 58, 979-997

o  Bürger R (2010) Evolution and polymorphism in the multilocus Levene model with no or weak epistasis. Theor. Popul. Biol. 78, 123-138

o  Schreiber S, Bürger R, Bolnick DI (2011) The community effects of phenotypic and genetic variation within a predator population. Ecology 92, 1582-1593

o  Bürger R, Akerman A (2011) The effects of linkage and gene flow on local adaptation: A two-locus continent-island model. Theor. Popul. Biol. 80, 272-288

o  Bank C, Bürger R, Hermisson J (2012) The limits to parapatric speciation: Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities in a continent-island model. Genetics 191, 845–863

o  Akerman A, Bürger R (2014) The consequences of gene flow for local adaptation and differentiation: a two-locus two-deme model. J. Math. Biol. 68, 1135-1198

o  Bürger R (2014) A survey of migration-selection models in population genetics. Discrete Cont. Dyn. Syst. B 19, 883 - 959

o  Aeschbacher S, Bürger R (2014) The effect of linkage on establishment and survival of locally beneficial mutations. Genetics 197, 317-336

o  Jones AG, Bürger R, Arnold SJ (2014) Epistasis and natural selection shape the mutational architecture of complex traits. Nat. Commun. 5:3709, doi: 10.1038/ncomms4709

o  Servedio M, Bürger R (2014) The counterintuitive role of sexual selection in species maintenance and speciation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 111, 8113-8118, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1316484111

o  Geroldinger L, Bürger R (2015) Clines in quantitative traits: The role of migration patterns and selection scenarios. Theor. Popul. Biol. 99, 43-66

o  Yeaman S, Aeschbacher S, Bürger R (2016) The evolution of genomic islands by increased establishment probability of linked alleles. Molecular Ecology 25, 2542–2558

o  Bürger R (2017) Two-locus clines on the real line with a step environment. Theor. Popul. Biol. 117, 1-22

o  Pontz M, Hofbauer J, Bürger R (2018) Evolutionary dynamics in the two-locus two-allele model with weak selection. J. Math. Biol. 76, 151–203

o  Su L, Lam K-Y, Bürger R (2019) Two-locus clines maintained by diffusion and recombination in a heterogeneous environment. J. Differential Equations 266, 7909-7947

o  Patel S, Bürger R (2019) Eco-evolutionary feedbacks between prey densities and linkage disequilibrium in the predator maintain diversity. Evolution 73, 1533-1548

o  Servedio M, Bürger R (2020) The effectiveness of pseudomagic traits in promoting divergence and enhancing local adaptation. Evolution 74, 2438-2450

o  Pontz M, Bürger R (2022) The effects of epistasis and linkage on the invasion of locally beneficial mutations and the evolution of genomic islands. Theor. Popul. Biol. 144, 49 - 69

 

 

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