VARIATION OF CARBOHYDRATE IN THE OVARY OF MURRELS (CHANNA SPP.)

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.