1. White chromatophores appear on the egg-bearing segments of female prawns and shrimps at sexual maturity.

  2. Such chromatophores do not appear in the females whose gonads have been destroyed by X-rays or by parasites.

  3. It is probable that this appearance of white chromatophores at sexual maturity is correlated with the metabolic changes occurring at yolk deposition in the ovaries.

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