The yolk which is a store of nutritive materials accumulated during oocyte development, differs widely from species to species in proportion and total amount of its proteinous, fatty and other components such as nucleic acids, carbohyrates and plasma proteins. The available evidences indicate wide variation in the origin and chemical transformation of yolk inclusions during oogenesis in fishes
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