LEPR and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Interestingly, while there is controversy about the role of the leptin receptor in obesity in zebrafish [80] in studies that scored growth results before 6 months of age, a recent study showed that loss of the leptin b paralog in zebrafish leads to increased adiposity and a phenotype reminiscent of type 2 diabetes specifically in older fish between one and two years of age [91].