Selected Publications

·          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

·          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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

·          Jones AG, Arnold SJ, and Bürger R (2007) The mutation matrix and the evolution of evolvability. Evolution 61, 727-745

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

·          Bürger R (2009) Multilocus selection in subdivided populations II: Maintenance of polymorphism under weak or strong migration. J. Math. Biol. 58, 979-997, doi:10.1007/s00285-008-0237-4

·          Bürger R (2010) Evolution and polymorphism in the multilocus Levene model with no or weak epistasis. Theor. Popul. Biol. 78, 123-138, pdf, doi:10.1016/j.tpb.2010.06.002