THE ORNITHINE CYCLE IN NEUROSPORA AND ITS GENETIC CONTROL

@article{Srb1944THEOC,
  title={THE ORNITHINE CYCLE IN NEUROSPORA AND ITS GENETIC CONTROL},
  author={A. Srb and N. Horowitz},
  journal={Journal of Biological Chemistry},
  year={1944},
  volume={154},
  pages={129-139}
}
It has been emphasized by Haldane (1) that for studies of intermediary metabolism "the new science of genetics furnishes a very powerful method." Such a method is founded upon the general premises that genes control many of the chemical reactions within an organism, and that gene mutations by blocking a reaction chain at various points may, in effect, resolve a metabolic process into some of its constituent stages. For instance, the genetics of such diseases as alcaptonuria and cystinuria have… Expand
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