A security guard at the Watergate complex found several doors ajar and called the police.
In fact, the researchers say, this particular pheromone is the most complex found for a single behavior in any organism.
Dramatic improvement occurs after administering folic acid, a chemical of the vitamin B complex found in leafy vegetables and liver and also produced synthetically.
The work resulted in the discovery of the major histocompatibility complex, a genetic complex found in all vertebrates that is analogous to the H-2 complex.
In their investigation the researchers infected the plant Arabidopsis thaliana with cauliflower mosaic virus and found that reproduction of the virus makes use of cyclin-dependent kinase C complex (CDKC), a protein complex found in the plant cells.
The strong CuL complex found in Martha's Vineyard waters was matched by a ligand produced by a strain of Synechoccous.
NF-κB is a protein complex found in almost all animal cell types that act as a transcription factor.
The Gastonia Gazette, who initially wrote about the story, said a resident of the complex found a bag of raw meat two weeks earlier, and online commenters guessed it came from the same unknown meat-spreader.
When Jonathan Minns, who later bought the complex, found in 1971 that it was threatened with demolition, he successfully sought to get it listed by the Historic Buildings Council for England (the predecessor of English Heritage).
His punishment was one of the most severe sentences ever handed out for drug offences in Sussex, but then his lab - where he'd produced millions of pounds worth of illegal narcotics - was also reportedly one of the "most complex found in the country in the past 25 years".
Interestingly, a highly dominant nematode species (Halomonhystera disjuncta complex) found in bacterial mats at deep-sea seeps has been described from intertidal habitats before.
