Coxeter Groups as Beauville Groups

We generalize earlier work of Fuertes and Gonzalez-Diez as well as earlier work of Bauer, Catanese and Grunewald by classifying which of the irreducible Coxeter groups are (strongly real) Beauville groups. We also make partial progress on the much more difficult question of which Coxeter groups are Beauville groups in general as well as discussing the related question of which Coxeter groups can be used in the construction of mixed Beauville groups

Purely (Non-)Strongly Real Beauville Groups

We discuss Beauville groups whose corresponding Beauville surfaces are either always strongly real or never strongly real producing several infinite families of examples

Population genetics of sexual conflict in the genomic era

Sexual conflict occurs when selection acts in opposing directions on males and females. Case studies in both vertebrates and invertebrates indicate that sexual conflict maintains genetic diversity through balancing selection, which might explain why many populations show more genetic variation than expected. Recent population genomic approaches based on different measures of balancing selection have suggested that sexual conflict can arise over survival, not just reproductive fitness as previously thought. A fuller understanding of sexual conflict will provide insight into its contribution to adaptive evolution and will reveal the constraints it might impose on populations

Lost Branches on the Tree of Life

Failure to archive published data can impede reproducibility and inhibit downstream synthesis. Alarmingly, we estimate that ∼70% of existing DNA sequence alignments/phylogenetic trees, representing much of the underpinning of modern phylogenetic analysis, are no longer accessible. The evolutionary biology community needs to adopt policies ensuring that data are publicly archived upon publication