Prof Anjali Goswami

Grants

The End of an Era: Resolving the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction in Northwest Argentina
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: Royal Society
Total value £11,993 (to Museum £11,993)
Dates: 2017 - 2019

Analysing Diversity with a Phenomic Approach: Trends in Vertebrate Evolution
Role: Principal investigator

ULTRAMOD - Using comparative genomics to uncover the origins of phenotypic modularity in squamate reptiles
Role: Principal investigatorMohan A
Co-investigator: Streicher J
Funding: H2020 Excellent Science
Dates: 2021 - 2023

ORPG-7500 How to tuna fish: Drivers of diversity in Pelagiaria (tunas, mackerels and kin)
Role: Principal investigatorJohanson Z
Co-investigator: Giles S
Funding: Leverhulme Trust
Total value £284,912 (to Museum £284,912)
Dates: 2019 - 2022

Publications

Goswami A, Noirault E, Coombs EJ, Clavel J, Fabre A-C, Halliday TJD, Churchill M, Curtis A, Watanabe A, Simmons NB, Beatty BL, Geisler JH, Fox DL, Felice RN (2022) Attenuated evolution of mammals through the Cenozoic. Science, 378 (6618) : 377 - 383. doi: 10.1126/science.abm7525

Lanzetti A, Coombs EJ, Portela Miguez R, Fernandez V, Goswami A (2022) The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289 (1980) : doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1090

Lanzetti A, Chrouch N, Portela Miguez R, Fernandez V, Goswami A (2022) Developing echolocation: distinctive patterns in the ontogeny of the tympanoperiotic complex in baleen and toothed whales (Cetacea). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135 (2) : 394 - 406. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab160

Felice RN, Pol D, Goswami A (2021) Complex macroevolutionary dynamics underly the evolution of the crocodyliform skull. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288 (1954) : 20210919 - 20210919. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0919

Agnolín FL, Cerroni MA, Scanferla A, Goswami A, Paulina-Carabajal A, Halliday T, Cuff AR, Reuil S (2021) First definitive abelisaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Northwestern Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41 (4) : doi: 10.1080/02724634.2021.2002348

Huntley LC, Gower DJ, Sampaio FL, Collins ES, Goswami A, Fabre A (2021) Intraspecific morphological variation in the shieldtail snake Rhinophis philippinus (Serpentes: Uropeltidae), with particular reference to tail‐shield and cranial 3D geometric morphometrics. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59 (6) : 1357 - 1370. doi: 10.1111/jzs.12505

Bardua C, Fabre A-C, Clavel J, Bon M, Das K, Stanley EL, Blackburn DC, Goswami A (null) Size, microhabitat, and loss of larval feeding drive cranial diversification in frogs. Nature Communications, 12 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22792-y

Mitchell MJ, Goswami A, Felice RN (2021) Cranial integration in the ring-necked parakeet, Psittacula krameri (Psittaciformes: Psittaculidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 133 (1) : 47 - 56. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab032

Fabre A-C, Dowling C, Portela Miguez R, Fernandez V, Noirault E, Goswami A (2021) Functional constraints during development limit jaw shape evolution in marsupials. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288 (1949) : doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0319

Smaers JB, Rothman RS, Hudson DR, Balanoff AM, Beatty B, Dechmann DKN, de Vries D, Dunn JC, Fleagle JG, Gilbert CC, Goswami A, Iwaniuk AN, Jungers WL, Kerney M, Ksepka DT, Manger PR, Mongle CS, Rohlf FJ, Smith NA, Soligo C, Weisbecker V, Safi K (2021) The evolution of mammalian brain size. Science Advances, 7 (18) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe2101

White HE, Clavel J, Tucker AS, Goswami A (2020) A comparison of metrics for quantifying cranial suture complexity. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 17 (171) : 20200476 - 20200476. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0476

Felice RN, Watanabe A, Cuff AR, Hanson M, Bhullar B-AS, Rayfield ER, Witmer LM, Norell MA, Goswami A (null) Decelerated dinosaur skull evolution with the origin of birds. PLOS Biology, 18 (8) : e3000801 - e3000801. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000801

Coombs EJ, Clavel J, Park T, Churchill M, Goswami A (2020) Wonky whales: the evolution of cranial asymmetry in cetaceans. BMC Biology, 18 (1) : doi: 10.1186/s12915-020-00805-4

Guillerme T, Cooper N, Brusatte SL, Davis KE, Jackson AL, Gerber S, Goswami A, Healy K, Hopkins MJ, Jones MEH, Lloyd GT, O'Reilly JE, Pate A, Puttick MN, Rayfield EJ, Saupe EE, Sherratt E, Slater GJ, Weisbecker V, Thomas GH, Donoghue PCJ (2020) Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity. Biology Letters, 16 (7) : 20200199 - 20200199. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0199

Bon M, Bardua C, Goswami A, Fabre A-C (2020) Cranial integration in the fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra (Caudata: Salamandridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 130 (1) : 178 - 194. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa020

Bardua C, Fabre A, Bon M, Das K, Stanley EL, Blackburn DC, Goswami A (2020) Evolutionary integration of the frog cranium. Evolution, 74 (6) : 1200 - 1215. doi: 10.1111/evo.13984

Fabre A-C, Noirault E, Fernandez V, Portela-Miguez R, Goswami A (2020) Morphological integration of the skull in marsupials: impact of diet and locomotion. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 60 : E316 - E316.

Goswami A, Watanabe A, Felice RN, Bardua C, Fabre A-C, Polly PD (2019) High-Density Morphometric Analysis of Shape and Integration: The Good, the Bad, and the Not-Really-a-Problem. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59 (3) : 669 - 683. doi: 10.1093/icb/icz120

Watanabe A, Fabre A-C, Felice RN, Maisano JA, Müller J, Herrel A, Goswami A (2019) Ecomorphological diversification in squamates from conserved pattern of cranial integration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116 (29) : 14688 - 14697. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1820967116

Bardua C, Bon M, Das K, Blackburn DC, Stanley EL, Herrel A, Goswami A (2019) Cranial Morphological Evolution across Anura (Frogs). JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 280 : S58 - S58.

Fabre A-C, Bardua C, Felice R, Blackburn D, Stanley E, Bonnel J, Streicher J, Goswami A (2019) Morphological Integration of the Head in Salamanders: Impact of Developmental Strategy and Ecology. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 280 : S117 - S117.

Goswami A, Bardua C, Watanabe A, Fabre AC, Randau M, Marshall A, Bon M, Noirault E, Felice RN (2019) Assessing the Macroevolutionary Consequences of Phenotypic Integration with Dense Phenomic Data from Living and Extinct Tetrapods. JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY 280 : S14 - S15.

Felice RN, Watanabe A, Cuff AR, Noirault E, Pol D, Witmer LM, Norell MA, O'Connor PM, Goswami A (2019) Evolutionary Integration and Modularity in the Archosaur Cranium. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59 (2) : 371 - 382. doi: 10.1093/icb/icz052

Bardua C, Evans SE, Goswami A (2019) Phylogeny, ecology and deep time: 2D outline analysis of anuran skulls from the Early Cretaceous to the Recent. Palaeontology, 62 (3) : 417 - 431. doi: 10.1111/pala.12405

Marshall AF, Bardua C, Gower DJ, Wilkinson M, Sherratt E, Goswami A (2019) High-density three-dimensional morphometric analyses support conserved static (intraspecific) modularity in caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) crania. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 126 (4) : 721 - 742. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz001

Randau M, Sanfelice D, Goswami A (2019) Shifts in cranial integration associated with ecological specialization in pinnipeds (Mammalia, Carnivora). Royal Society Open Science, 6 (3) : 190201 - 190201. doi: 10.1098/rsos.190201

Fabre A-C, Bardua C, Bonnel J, Blackburn D, Goswami A (2019) Morphological Integration of the Head in Salamanders: Impact of Developmental Strategy and Ecology.. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 59 : E65 - E65.

Goswami A, Watanabe A, Felice RN, Bardua C, Fabre A-C, Polly PD (2019) Phenomic approaches to analysing integration in complex systems and across diverse taxa: the good, the bad, and the ugly. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 59 : E84 - E84.

Churchill M, Miguel J, Beatty BL, Goswami A, Geisler JH (2019) Asymmetry drives modularity of the skull in the common dolphin (Delphinus delphis). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 126 (2) : 225 - 239. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly190

Bardua C, Felice RN, Watanabe A, Fabre A-C, Goswami A (2019) A Practical Guide to Sliding and Surface Semilandmarks in Morphometric Analyses. Integrative Organismal Biology, 1 (1) : doi: 10.1093/iob/obz016

Felice RN, Randau M, Goswami A (2018) A fly in a tube: Macroevolutionary expectations for integrated phenotypes. Evolution, 72 (12) : 2580 - 2594. doi: 10.1111/evo.13608

Bennett CV, Upchurch P, Goin FJ, Goswami A (2018) Deep time diversity of metatherian mammals: implications for evolutionary history and fossil-record quality. Paleobiology, 44 (2) : 171 - 198. doi: 10.1017/pab.2017.34

Churchill M, Geisler JH, Beatty BL, Goswami A (2018) Evolution of cranial telescoping in echolocating whales (Cetacea: Odontoceti). Evolution, 72 (5) : 1092 - 1108. doi: 10.1111/evo.13480

Davies TG, Rahman IA, Lautenschlager S, Cunningham JA, Asher RJ, Barrett PM, Bates KT, Bengtson S, Benson RBJ, Boyer DM, Braga J, Bright JA, Claessens LPAM, Cox PG, Dong X-P, Evans AR, Falkingham PL, Friedman M, Garwood RJ, Goswami A, Hutchinson JR, Jeffery NS, Johanson Z, Lebrun R, Martínez-Pérez C, Marugán-Lobón J, O'Higgins PM, Metscher B, Orliac M, Rowe TB, Rücklin M, Sánchez-Villagra MR, Shubin NH, Smith SY, Starck JM, Stringer C, Summers AP, Sutton MD, Walsh SA, Weisbecker V, Witmer LM, Wroe S, Yin Z, Rayfield EJ, Donoghue PCJ (2017) Open data and digital morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284 (1852) : 20170194 - 20170194. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0194

Fabre A-C, Cornette R, Perrard A, Boyer DM, Prasad GVR, Hooker JJ, Goswami A (2014) A three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the locomotory ecology ofDeccanolestes, a eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34 (1) : 146 - 156. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2013.789437

Hautier L, Bennett NC, Viljoen H, Howard L, Milinkovitch MC, Tzika AC, Goswami A, Asher RJ (2013) PATTERNS OF OSSIFICATION IN SOUTHERN VERSUS NORTHERN PLACENTAL MAMMALS. Evolution, 67 (7) : 1994 - 2010. doi: 10.1111/evo.12071

McInnes L, Baker WJ, Barraclough TG, Dasmahapatra KK, Goswami A, Harmon LJ, Morlon H, Purvis A, Rosindell J, Thomas GH, Turvey ST, Phillimore AB (2011) Integrating ecology into macroevolutionary research. Biology Letters, 7 (5) : 644 - 646. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0358

BUTLER RJ, GOSWAMI A (2008) Body size evolution in Mesozoic birds: little evidence for Cope’s rule. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 21 (6) : 1673 - 1682. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01594.x

Goswami A, Prochel J (2007) Ontogenetic Morphology and Allometry of the Cranium in the Common European Mole (Talpa europaea). Journal of Mammalogy, 88 (3) : 667 - 677. doi: 10.1644/06-mamm-a-315r.1

Goswami A (null) Cranial modularity and sequence heterochrony in mammals. Evolution & Development, 9 (3) : 290 - 298. doi: 10.1111/j.1525-142x.2007.00161.x

Antoine P-O, De Franceschi D, Flynn JJ, Nel A, Baby P, Benammi M, Calderón Y, Espurt N, Goswami A, Salas-Gismondi R (2006) Amber from western Amazonia reveals Neotropical diversity during the middle Miocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103 (37) : 13595 - 13600. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0605801103

Goswami A (2006) Cranial Modularity Shifts during Mammalian Evolution. The American Naturalist, 168 (2) : 270 - 280. doi: 10.1086/505758

Giannini N, Goswami A, Sánchez-Villagra MR (2006) DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGUMENTARY STRUCTURES IN ROUSETTUS AMPLEXICAUDATUS (MAMMALIA: CHIROPTERA: PTEROPODIDAE) DURING LATE-EMBRYONIC AND FETAL STAGES. Journal of Mammalogy, 87 (5) : 993 - 1001. doi: 10.1644/06-mamm-a-016r1.1

Goswami A (2006) MORPHOLOGICAL INTEGRATION IN THE CARNIVORAN SKULL. Evolution, 60 (1) : 169 - 183. doi: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2006.tb01091.x

Goswami A (2006) Modularity and morphological diversity in the mammalian cranium. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY, 26 (3) : 68A - 69A.

Courses taught

MSc: MSc Taxonomy & Biodiversity: Palaeobiology Module

2/2019.

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Lead supervisor to Vasco Leite J
Co supervisor(s): Barrett P
Evolutionary biomechanics of the dinosaur hand
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Funding: London NERC DTP
1/9/2021 - 2/2/2021.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Bennett S
Co supervisor(s): Barrett P
An investigation into ichthyosaur ontogeny, sexual dimorphism and body size evolution
Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
Funding: Self-funded
1/9/2010 - 30/6/2014.