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The Rapid Effects Of Steroids On Reproductive Processes In Goldfish, Carassius Auratus, Kimberly Dao

Honors College

It is traditionally understood that sex steroid hormones work through slow genomic pathways. More recently, it has also been discovered that sex steroid hormones also mediate rapid effects through a non-genomic pathway. However, much is still unknown about this mechanism, such as the receptors that mediate these effects, the behavioral consequences, and the contexts in which they occur. Goldfish have been used to investigate these behavioral effects and the receptors used in a sexual social context. To explore these ideas, the Thompson Lab and I tested if sex pheromones that rapidly increase levels of testosterone could also rapidly increase milt …