# First person – Gonzalo Quiroga-Artigas

## TL;DR

This paper presents an interview with Gonzalo Quiroga-Artigas, who studied how tardigrades grow and found they are not eutelic organisms.

## Contribution

The study reveals that tardigrades' storage cell proliferation during growth challenges the assumption that they are eutelic.

## Key findings

- Tardigrades increase storage cells as they grow.
- This contradicts the eutelic model of fixed cell numbers in adults.
- The findings suggest new insights into tardigrade development.

## Abstract

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Gonzalo Quiroga-Artigas is first author on ‘
Storage cell proliferation during somatic growth establishes that tardigrades are not eutelic organisms’, published in BiO. Gonzalo is a postdoc in the lab of María Moriel-Carretero at Centre de Recherche en Biologie cellulaire de Montpellier (CRBM), Université de Montpellier, France, delving into the genetic factors that influence the extremophile abilities of tardigrades.