# First person – Avik Banerjee

## TL;DR

This paper discusses how animals choose their diets under stress and how these choices impact their survival and reproduction.

## Contribution

The study explores dietary choices in ectothermic vertebrates under stress and their effects on survival and reproduction.

## Key findings

- Animals adjust their dietary choices based on ecological stress.
- These choices significantly affect survival and reproductive success.

## 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. Avik Banerjee is first author on ‘
Stress-induced elemental retention in an ectothermic vertebrate’, published in BiO. Avik is a PhD student in the lab of Maria Thaker at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, investigating how animals make dietary nutritional choices under different ecological contexts and how these choices affect their survival and reproduction.