Publications

Di Santo, V., & Goerig, E. (2025). Swimming smarter, not harder: fishes exploit habitat heterogeneity to increase locomotor performance. Journal of Experimental Biology, 228(Suppl_1), JEB247918. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.247918
Ishida, M., Berio, F., Di Santo, V., Shubin, N. H., & Iida, F. (2024). Paleoinspired robotics as an experimental approach to the history of life. Science Robotics, 9(95), eadn1125. https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adn1125
Vu, T., Ebeling, H., Di Santo, V., & Kenaley, C. P. (2024). Sexually dimorphic eye size in dragonfishes, a response to a bioluminescent signalling gap. Biology Letters, 20(7), 20240165. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0165
Di Santo, V. (2024). Sharks at risk from climate-driven coastal upwelling. Nature Climate Change, 14(5), 432–433. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01975-7
Di Santo, V. (2024). Schooling in fishes. In Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology (pp. 614–625). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90801-6.00047-1
Berio, F., Morerod, C., Qi, X., & Di Santo, V. (2023). Ontogenetic Plasticity in Shoaling Behavior in a Forage Fish under Warming. Integrative And Comparative Biology, 63(3), 730–741. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad043
Guo, J., Han, P., Zhang, W., Wang, J., Lauder, G. V., Di Santo, V., & Dong, H. (2023). Vortex dynamics and fin-fin interactions resulting in performance enhancement in fish-like propulsion. Physical Review Fluids, 8(7), 073101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.073101
Zhang, W., Pan, Y., Wang, J., Di Santo, V., Lauder, G. V., & Dong, H. (2023). An efficient tree-topological local mesh refinement on Cartesian grids for multiple moving objects in incompressible flow. Journal of Computational Physics, 479, 111983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2023.111983
Di Santo, V. (2022). EcoPhysioMechanics: Integrating Energetics and Biomechanics to Understand Fish Locomotion under Climate Change. Integrative And Comparative Biology, 62(3), 711–720. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac095
Akanyeti, O., Di Santo, V., Goerig, E., Wainwright, D. K., Liao, J. C., Castro-Santos, T., & Lauder, G. V. (2022). Fish-inspired segment models for undulatory steady swimming. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 17(4), 046007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac6bd6
Vilmar, M., & Di Santo, V. (2022). Swimming performance of sharks and rays under climate change. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 32(3), 765–781. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-022-09706-x
Lauer, J., Zhou, M., Ye, S., Menegas, W., Schneider, S., Nath, T., Rahman, M. M., Di Santo, V., Soberanes, D., Feng, G., Murthy, V. N., Lauder, G., Dulac, C., Mathis, M. W., & Mathis, A. (2022). Multi-animal pose estimation, identification and tracking with DeepLabCut. Nature Methods, 19(4), 496–504. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-022-01443-0
Di Santo, V., Goerig, E., Wainwright, D. K., Akanyeti, O., Liao, J. C., Castro-Santos, T., & Lauder, G. V. (2021). Convergence of undulatory swimming kinematics across a diversity of fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(49), e2113206118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113206118
Papastamatiou, Y. P., Iosilevskii, G., Di Santo, V., Huveneers, C., Hattab, T., Planes, S., Ballesta, L., & Mourier, J. (2021). Sharks surf the slope: Current updrafts reduce energy expenditure for aggregating marine predators. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90(10), 2302–2314. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13536
Di Santo, V., O’Boyle, L. A., Saylor, R. K., Dabruzzi, T. F., Covell, M. A., Kaack, K., Scharer, R., Seger, K., Favazza, N., Pomory, C. M., & Bennett, W. A. (2020). Coral loss alters guarding and farming behavior of a Caribbean damselfish. Marine Biology, 167(8), 120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-03726-6
Zhu, J., White, C., Wainwright, D. K., Di Santo, V., Lauder, G. V., & Bart-Smith, H. (2019). Tuna robotics: A high-frequency experimental platform exploring the performance space of swimming fishes. Science Robotics, 4(34), eaax4615. https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aax4615
O’Connell, K. A., Di Santo, V., Maldonado, J., Molina, E., & Fujita, M. K. (2019). A Tale of Two Skates: Comparative Phylogeography of North American Skate Species with Implications for Conservation. Copeia, 107(2), 297. https://doi.org/10.1643/CG-18-114
Di Santo, V. (2019). Ocean acidification and warming affect skeletal mineralization in a marine fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1894), 20182187. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2187
Wen, L., Ren, Z., Di Santo, V., Hu, K., Yuan, T., Wang, T., & Lauder, G. V. (2018). Understanding Fish Linear Acceleration Using an Undulatory Biorobotic Model with Soft Fluidic Elastomer Actuated Morphing Median Fins. Soft Robotics, 5(4), 375–388. https://doi.org/10.1089/soro.2017.0085
Di Santo, V., Jordan, H. L., Cooper, B., Currie, R. J., Beitinger, T. L., & Bennett, W. A. (2018). Thermal tolerance of the invasive red-bellied pacu and the risk of establishment in the United States. Journal of Thermal Biology, 74, 110–115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2018.03.015
Di Santo, V., Kenaley, C. P., & Lauder, G. V. (2017). High postural costs and anaerobic metabolism during swimming support the hypothesis of a U-shaped metabolism–speed curve in fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(49), 13048–13053. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715141114
Saadat, M., Fish, F. E., Domel, A. G., Di Santo, V., Lauder, G. V., & Haj-Hariri, H. (2017). On the rules for aquatic locomotion. Physical Review Fluids, 2(8), 083102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.083102
Di Santo, V., Blevins, E. L., & Lauder, G. V. (2017). Batoid locomotion: effects of speed on pectoral fin deformation in the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea. Journal of Experimental Biology, 220(4), 705–712. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.148767
Di Santo, V., & Lobel, P. S. (2017). Body size and thermal tolerance in tropical gobies. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 487, 11–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2016.11.007
Park, S.-J., Gazzola, M., Park, K. S., Park, S., Di Santo, V., Blevins, E. L., Lind, J. U., Campbell, P. H., Dauth, S., Capulli, A. K., Pasqualini, F. S., Ahn, S., Cho, A., Yuan, H., Maoz, B. M., Vijaykumar, R., Choi, J.-W., Deisseroth, K., Lauder, G. V., … Parker, K. K. (2016). Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray. Science, 353(6295), 158–162. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf4292
Di Santo, V., & Kenaley, C. P. (2016). Skating by: low energetic costs of swimming in a batoid fish. Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb.136358. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.136358
Di Santo, V. (2016). Intraspecific variation in physiological performance of a benthic elasmobranch challenged by ocean acidification and warming. Journal of Experimental Biology, jeb.139204. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.139204
Di Santo, V., & Lobel, P. S. (2016). Size affects digestive responses to increasing temperature in fishes: physiological implications of being small under climate change. Marine Ecology, 37(4), 813–820. https://doi.org/10.1111/maec.12358
Di Santo, V., Tran, A. H., & Svendsen, J. C. (2016). Progressive hypoxia decouples activity and aerobic performance of skate embryos. Conservation Physiology, 4(1), cov067. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cov067
Di Santo, V. (2015). Ocean acidification exacerbates the impacts of global warming on embryonic little skate, Leucoraja erinacea (Mitchill). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 463, 72–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2014.11.006
Lauder, G. V., & Di Santo, V. (2015). Swimming Mechanics and Energetics of Elasmobranch Fishes. In Fish Physiology (Vol. 34, pp. 219–253). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-801289-5.00006-7
Rossi, F., Gribsholt, B., Gazeau, F., Di Santo, V., & Middelburg, J. J. (2013). Complex Effects of Ecosystem Engineer Loss on Benthic Ecosystem Response to Detrital Macroalgae. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e66650. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066650
Di Santo, V., & Bennett, W. A. (2011). Effect of rapid temperature change on resting routine metabolic rates of two benthic elasmobranchs. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 37(4), 929–934. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-011-9490-3
Di Santo, V., & Bennett, W. A. (2011). Is post-feeding thermotaxis advantageous in elasmobranch fishes? Journal of Fish Biology, 78(1), 195–207. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02853.x