Wolf and Quimby medium and its modified chemically-defined version were found to be most suitable among the eight media tested for shortterm culture of oocytes of the catfish, Heteropneustes fossilis. The modified Wolf and Quimby was employed to evaluate the relative effectiveness of several hypophyseal and steroid hormones, as well as steroid precursors and
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