Why only male Zebrafishes were used in Obesity/diabetes disease studies?

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Entedhar Sarhat

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Olusegun Ogundele

I think to eliminate confounders, or simply to ensure that the observations are not due to the female zebrafish's body chemistry-related obesity /diabetes.

Ahsan Siddiqui

Hi Archisman I believe there is nothing significant in this as its just the researcher thinks the Male Zebra fishes are appropriate for research.

Regards

@Entedhar, the paper did not address the question succinctly, could you please provide more?

Archisman Mahapatra

@Entedhar, I couldn't find the answer in your provided link.