VARIATION OF CARBOHYDRATE IN THE OVARY OF MURRELS (CHANNA SPP.)
AMITA SEXANA *
COLLEGE OF FISHERIES SCIENCE, GB PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY. PANTNAGAR-263. 145, INDIA
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Abstract
Seeing the medicinal food value and ornamental aquarium fisheries Channa sp. has become a choice for study. Present paper deals with the variation in quantity of glucose and glycogen during the ovarian cycle. These two component vary considerably from 1 to 4 stages of maturation of ovary, both were in the stage 2 and lowest in stage 4 in all the four species of the Channa; viz. C. punctatus, C. mariulias, C. striatus and C. gachua during observation on maturation, it was observed that glycogen contents were always more than amount of glucose present in ovaries of any four species of Channa.
Keywords: Carbohydrate, ovary, Channa