It is that sort of Estonian quirkiness that gives the LMC its pull.But the LMC has been cancelled.
While such stimulation from a fixed point in space ignores spatial processing normally performed by LMCs [11], it benefits the following analysis by simplifying the R-LMC-R system into a single processing unit that lacks lateral communication from the neighboring systems.
In light of the abundance of partial LMC in natural systems, it is now important to reconsider previously studied systems in order to evaluate the level of LMC and its effect upon the reproductive fitness of unmated females.
While we found no difference in glutamine synthetase between LMC and Ts65Dn hippocampus, it is possible there is a change in activity beyond protein levels.
This is 'Hamilton's Local Mate Competition' theory (LMC; Hamilton 1967) and it explains why female-biased sex ratios are favoured in spatially structured populations for a variety of taxa, from plants to insects to snakes (West et al. 2005).
If the deal with the LMC is anything to go by it looks like it will be the latter.
Hybrid breakdown should cause increased mortality of sons produced by F1 hybrid females independently of rearing conditions, yet we found no indication of hybrid breakdown among the females producing only sons (described above), and there was also no evidence for it in the LMC experiment (see the next paragraph).
The End of The West as We Know It?" Opening session of LMC 2016, photo by Annika Haas.
Therefore, it is likely that our analyses, which used variable observation windows for testing adaptation dynamics at different luminance levels and temperatures, covered much of the relevant time of network adaptation in the R-LMC-R system for rescaling the LMC output in the natural environment.
Thus, it was possible that dynamic optimization of LMC output was just a property of a moderately dark-adapted R-LMC-R system re-sensitizing after being suddenly excited by light increments, and that it would not work with light decrements.
