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Reinhard Bürger

Researcher at University of Vienna

Publications -  102
Citations -  9764

Reinhard Bürger is an academic researcher from University of Vienna. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Stabilizing selection. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 97 publications receiving 8844 citations. Previous affiliations of Reinhard Bürger include Harvard University & University of Oregon.

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Mutation accumulation and the extinction of small populations

TL;DR: Application of empirical estimates of the properties of spontaneous deleterious mutations leads to the conclusion that populations with effective sizes smaller than 100 are highly vulnerable to extinction via a mutational meltdown on timescales of approximately 100 generations.
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The Mathematical Theory of Selection, Recombination, and Mutation

TL;DR: The emphasis here is on models that have a direct bearing on evolutionary quantitative genetics and applications concerning the maintenance of genetic variation in quantitative traits and their dynamics under selection are treated in detail.
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Evolution and extinction in a changing environment: a quantitative-genetic analysis.

TL;DR: It is found that maximum sustainable rates of evolution or, equivalently, critical rates of environmental change, may be considerably less than 10% of a phenotypic standard deviation per generation.
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The mutational meltdown in asexual populations

TL;DR: An overview of the theory of the mutational meltdown is given, showing how the process depends on the demographic properties of a population, the properties of mutations, and the relationship between fitness and number of mutations incurred.