# First person – Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé

## TL;DR

This paper discusses how the size and development of axolotls affect their suction feeding movements.

## Contribution

The study provides new insights into the relationship between ontogeny and feeding kinematics in axolotls.

## Key findings

- Axolotl suction feeding kinematics change with size and developmental stage.
- Findings contribute to understanding evolutionary biology and animal behavior in amphibians.

## 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. Isabelle Toussaint-Lardé is first author on ‘
The impact of size and ontogeny on suction feeding kinematics in the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)’, published in BiO. Isabelle is a PhD student in the lab of Anne-Claire Fabre at Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland, investigating evolutionary biology and animal behaviour, especially herpetology.