John H. Costello

Life Under Pressure: Dissection of Cross-Phyla Metazoan Responses to Extreme Hydrostatic Pressure Reveals Pressure-Protective Heat Shock Acclimation

This study examines how shallow-dwelling Xenopus laevis embryos respond to high hydrostatic pressure and identifies heat shock pathway activation as a conserved protective mechanism across phyla.

Colonial Architecture Modulates the Speed and Efficiency of Multi-Jet Swimming in Salp Colonies

The paper compares swimming speed and energy efficiency across salp colony architectures, finding linear arrangements are faster and more efficient due to better frontal drag scaling.

Impactful feeding ecology of a predatory guild of oceanic jellies

The paper documents prey ingestion rates of four oceanic ctenophore species, finding they consume large numbers of prey and may be the most impactful planktonic predators in open oceans.

Feeding Rates of Sessile versus Motile Ciliates are Hydrodynamically Equivalent

The paper compares feeding rates of motile and sessile ciliates, finding they are hydrodynamically equivalent in nutrient transport efficiency.