# First person – Elisa Thoral

## TL;DR

Elisa Thoral discusses her research on how environmental factors affect animal performance at both organismal and cellular levels.

## Contribution

The study explores the link between mitochondrial respiration, metabolic rate, and blood cell count in great tits.

## Key findings

- Environmental parameters like temperature and diet influence animal performance.
- Mitochondrial respiration correlates with resting metabolic rate and blood cell count in great tits.

## 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. Elisa Thoral is first author on ‘
The relationship between mitochondrial respiration, resting metabolic rate and blood cell count in great tits’, published in BiO. Elisa is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr Andreas Nord at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, investigating I am interested in the effects of environmental parameters, such as temperature and diet, on animals’ performance at both the organismal and cellular level.