James L. Patton

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James L. Patton
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Patton in 2001
Born
James Lloyd Patton

(1941-06-21) June 21, 1941 (age 83)
Saint Louis, Missouri
Citizenship American
Alma mater University of Arizona
Spouse(s)Carol Porter Patton
(m. 1966–present)
Awards C. Hart Merriam Award (1983), [1] Distinguished Teaching Award (1991), [2] Joseph Grinnell Award (1998), [3] American Society of Mammalogists Honorary Membership (2001), [4] Berkeley Citation (2001) [5]
Scientific career
Fields Mammalogy, Evolutionary Biology
Institutions Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley
Thesis Chromosome evolution in the pocket mouse, Perognathus goldmani Osgood  (1968)
Doctoral advisor William B. Heed
Author abbrev. (zoology) Patton

James Lloyd Patton (June 21, 1941), is an American evolutionary biologist and mammalogist. He is emeritus professor of integrative biology and curator of mammals at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley and has made extensive contributions to the systematics and biogeography of several vertebrate taxa, especially small mammals (rodents, marsupials, and bats). [6]

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Career

Patton is best known for his pioneering works on the evolutionary cytogenetics and systematics of rodents, especially pocket mice ( Perognathus / Chaetodipus ) [7] and pocket gophers ( Thomomys ), [8] the diversification of rainforest faunas, [9] and the impact of climate change on North American mammals. [10] He has authored nearly 200 scientific publications, many of them in collaboration with 36 graduate students and 13 post-doctoral scholars he mentored over four decades. He is one of the most experienced field mammalogists today, having collected extensively in the western United States and in 14 other countries around the world, including Mexico, Ecuador (Galapagos Islands), Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Iran, and Cameroon. [11] As of 2005, he had deposited nearly 20,000 specimens in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, making him the most prolific collector of mammal specimens in that institution’s nearly 100-year history. [6]

Honors

Patton has several taxa named in his honor: two genera of neotropical rats ( Pattonomys [12] and Pattonimus [13] ), three species of neotropical rodents ( Proechimys pattoni , [14] Phyllomys pattoni , [15] and the fossil Ullumyspattoni), [16] one species of fossil porcupine (Neosteiromys pattoni), [17] one species of neotropical bat (Lonchophylla pattoni), [18] one species of pocket gopher louse (Geomydoecus pattoni), [19] and one species of Madagascar snake ( Liophidium pattoni). [20] [21]

The American Society of Mammalogists established the "James L. Patton Award" in 2015 to promote and support museum-based research by graduate students. [22]

Selected publications

Related Research Articles

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<i>Proechimys</i> Genus of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents

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<i>Olallamys</i> Genus of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents

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<i>Diplomys</i> Genus of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents

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The Colombian spiny-rat is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela.

The Pacific spiny rat is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is found in Ecuador and Peru.

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The Minca spiny rat is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is endemic to Colombia.

O'Connell's spiny-rat is a species of rodent in the family Echimyidae. It is endemic to Colombia.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oliver Payne Pearson</span> American zoologist

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Echimyidae</span> Family of rodents

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Echimyini</span> A tribe of mammals belonging to the spiny rat family of rodents

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Louise H. Emmons is an American zoologist who studies tropical rainforest mammals, especially rodents. She has conducted fieldwork in Gabon, Sabah (Borneo), Peru, and Bolivia. Her best known work is the field guide, Neotropical Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide, first published in 1990, with a second edition in 1997.

References

  1. ↑ American Society of Mammalogists. Recipients C. Hart Meriam Award for outstanding research contributions to the science of mammalogy, http://www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/committees/merriam-award
  2. ↑ UC Berkeley Center for Teaching & Learning, Past Distinguished Teaching Award Recipients, https://teaching.berkeley.edu/programs/distinguished-teaching-award/past-dta-recipients
  3. ↑ American Society of Mammalogists, Recipients Grinnell Award, http://www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/committees/grinnell-award
  4. ↑ American Society of Mammalogists, Honorary Members conferred in recognition of a distinguished career in service to mammalogy, http://www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/committees/honorary-membership
  5. ↑ UC Berkeley, Berkeley Citation – Past Recipients, https://awards.berkeley.edu/university-awards/berkeley-citation/recipients/
  6. 1 2 Lacey, E. A.; Myers, P., eds. (2005). Mammalian Diversification: From Chromosomes to Phylogeography: a Celebration of the Career of James L. Patton. University of California Publications in Zoology. Vol. 133. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-09853-4. OCLC   60835295.
  7. ↑ Patton, J.L. 1967. Chromosome studies of certain pocket mice, genus Perognathus (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). J. Mammal. 48:27–37
  8. ↑ Patton, J. L.; Smith, M. F. (1994). "Paraphyly, polyphyly, and the nature of species boundaries in pocket gophers (genus Thomomys)". Systematic Biology. 43: 11–26. doi:10.1093/sysbio/43.1.11.
  9. ↑ Patton, J. L.; Da Silva, M. N. F.; Malcolm, J. Y. R. (2000). "Mammals of the Rio Juruá and the Evolutionary and Ecological Diversification of Amazonia". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 244: 1. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)244<0001:MOTRJA>2.0.CO;2. hdl: 2246/1593 . S2CID   85577629.
  10. ↑ Moritz, C.; Patton, J. L.; Conroy, C. J.; Parra, J. L.; White, G. C.; Beissinger, S. R. (2008). "Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA" (PDF). Science. 322 (5899): 261–264. Bibcode:2008Sci...322..261M. doi:10.1126/science.1163428. PMID   18845755. S2CID   206515224.
  11. ↑ Rodríguez-Robles, J.; Greene, H. W. (2005). "Genes, Rats, and Sinking Boats: A Biographical Perspective on James L. Patton". In Lacey, E. A.; Myers, P. (eds.). Mammalian Diversification: From Chromosomes to Phylogeography: a Celebration of the Career of James L. Patton. University of California Publications in Zoology. Vol. 133. University of California Press. pp. 5–56. ISBN   978-0-520-09853-4. OCLC   60835295.
  12. ↑ Emmons, L. H. (2005). "A revision of the genera of arboreal Echimyidae (Rodentia: Echimyidae, Echimyinae), with descriptions of two new genera". In Lacey, E. A.; Myers, P. (eds.). Mammalian Diversification: From Chromosomes to Phylogeography: a Celebration of the Career of James L. Patton. University of California Publications in Zoology. Vol. 133. University of California Press. pp. 247–310. ISBN   978-0-520-09853-4. OCLC   60835295.
  13. ↑ Brito, Jorge; Koch, Claudia; Percequillo, Alexandre R.; Tinoco, Nicolás; Weksler, Marcelo; Pinto, C. Miguel; Pardiñas, Ulyses F. J. (2020-11-10). "A new genus of oryzomyine rodents (Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) with three new species from montane cloud forests, western Andean cordillera of Colombia and Ecuador". PeerJ. 8: e10247. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10247 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   7664470 . PMID   33240614.
  14. ↑ Da Silva, M.N.F. (1998). "Four new species of spiny rats of the genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae) from the western Amazon of Brazil". Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. 111: 436–471.
  15. ↑ Emmons, L. H.; Leite, Y. L. R.; Kock, D.; Costa, L. P. (2002). "A Review of the Named Forms of Phyllomys (Rodentia: Echimyidae) with the Description of a New Species from Coastal Brazil" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3380): 1–40. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2002)380<0001:AROTNF>2.0.CO;2. hdl:2246/2869. S2CID   56309113. hdl2
  16. ↑ Olivares, A. Itatí; Verzi, Diego H.; Contreras, Victor H.; Pessôa, Leila (2016-10-31). "A new Echimyidae (Rodentia, Hystricomorpha) from the late Miocene of southern South America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37: e1239204. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1239204. hdl: 11336/56402 . ISSN   0272-4634. S2CID   88845742.
  17. ↑ Candela, A. M. (2004). "A new giant porcupine (Rodentia, Erethizontidae) from the late Miocene of Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (3): 732–741. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0732:ANGPRE]2.0.CO;2. S2CID   85947606.
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  19. ↑ Price, R.D.; Hellenthal, R.A. (1979). "A review of the Geomydoecus tolucae complex (Mallophaga: Trichodectidae) from Thomomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae), based on qualitative and quantitative characters" (PDF). J. Med. Entomol. 16 (4): 265–274. doi:10.1093/jmedent/16.4.265. PMID   541803.
  20. ↑ Vieites, D.R.; Ratsoavina, F.M.; Randrianiaina, R.D.; Nagy, Z.T.; Glaw, F.; Vences, M. [in French] (2010). "A rhapsody of colours from Madagascar: discovery of a remarkable new snake of the genus Liophidium and its phylogenetic relationships". Salamandra. 46: 1–10.
  21. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Patton", p. 201).
  22. ↑ "James L. Patton Award | American Society of Mammalogists". www.mammalogy.org.
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