James L. Patton

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James L. Patton in 2001

James Lloyd "Jim" Patton (born June 21, 1941 in Saint Louis , Missouri ) is an American evolutionary biologist and mammal logist . He has extensive contributions to the systematics and biogeography of several vertebrate - taxa done, especially small mammals ( rodents , marsupials and bats ).

Life

In 1963 Patton received a Bachelor of Arts and in 1965 a Master of Science from the University of Arizona . In 1969 he was at the same university with a thesis on chromosome evolution in the pocket mouse, Perognathus goldmani Osgood for Ph.D. PhD in zoology.

From 1963 to 1965 he was an assistant professor and from 1965 to 1966 he was an associate professor at the University of Arizona. In 1966 he was a research fellow at the University of Texas MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in Houston , Texas . From 1966 to 1968 he was a fellow under the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) Title IV. From 1969 to 1974 he was a lecturer and assistant curator at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1974 to 1979 he was Associate Professor and Associate Curator at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. From 1979 to 2005 he was professor in the Department of Zoology (now Integrative Biology) and curator of mammals at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. He has been retired since 2005 .

Patton is best known for his work on the evolutionary cytogenetics and systematics of rodents, especially pocket mice ( Perognathus , Chaetodipus ) and pocket rats ( Thomomys ), the diversity of rainforest faunas and the effects of climate change on North American mammals. He has authored over 200 scientific publications, including several books and book chapters. Many of them were created in collaboration with 36 doctoral students and 13 postdocs whom he supervised over four decades. Patton undertook collective expeditions to the western United States and 14 other countries around the world, including Mexico , Ecuador ( Galapagos Islands ), Peru , Venezuela , Argentina , Brazil , Colombia , Taiwan , Vietnam , Iran and Cameroon . As of 2005, his collection in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology numbered nearly 20,000 specimens, making him the most prolific collector of mammal specimens in the almost hundred-year history of this institution.

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Pocket Gopher Thomomys bottæ, with Emphasis on California Populations (UC Publications in Zoology), 1990 (with Margaret F. Smith)
  • Life Underground: The Biology of Subterranean Rodents, 2000 (with Eileen A. Lacey)
  • Mammals of the Rio Jurua and the Evolutionary and Ecological Diversification of Amazonia (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Number 244), 2000 (with Maria Nazareth F. Da Silva)
  • Mamiferos del Noroeste de Mexico ll, 2000 (with Sergio Ticul Alvarez-Castaneda)
  • A Re-survey of the Historic Grinnell-Storer Vertebrate Transect through Yosemite National Park, California (Natural Resource Technical Report NPS / SIEN / NRTR? 2011/439), 2011 (with Craig Moritz)
  • Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents, 2015 (with Ulyses FJ Pardiñas )
  • A Manual of the Mammalia, 2020 (with Douglas A. Kelt)

Book chapter

  • Pocket Gophers. In: DW Macdonald (Ed.) The New Encyclopedia of Mammals, 2001
  • Heteromyidae (pp. 844-858) and Geomyidae (pp. 859-870) In: Mammal Species of the World , 2005
  • Family Echimyidae (Hutias, Coypu, South American Spiny-rats) In: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 6. Rodents I., 2016 (with Pierre-Henri Fabre and Yuri Leite)
  • Family Cricetidae (True Hamsters, Voles, Lemmings and New World Rats and Mice) In: Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Volume 7. Rodents II., 2017 (with Ulyses Pardiñas, Phil Myers, Livia León-Paniagua, Nicté Ordóñez Garza, Joseph Cook, Boris Kryštufek, Rudolf Haslauer, Robert Bradley and Gregory Shenbrot)

literature

  • Lacey, EA; Myers, P .: Mammalian Diversification: From Chromosomes to Phylogeography: a Celebration of the Career of James L. Patton . In: University of California Press (Ed.): University of California Publications in Zoology . tape 133 , 2005, ISBN 978-0-520-09853-4 ( escholarship.org [PDF]).
  • James Lloyd Patton. American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, Gale, 2008. Biography in Context, Accessed online January 10, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lacey, EA; Myers, P .: Mammalian Diversification: From Chromosomes to Phylogeography: a Celebration of the Career of James L. Patton . In: University of California Press (Ed.): University of California Publications in Zoology . tape 133 , 2005, ISBN 978-0-520-09853-4 ( escholarship.org [PDF]).
  2. ↑ JL Patton: Chromosome studies of certain pocket mice, genus Perognathus (Rodentia: Heteromyidae). Journal of Mammalogy 48, 1967, pp. 27-37. JSTOR 1378167 .
  3. ↑ JL Patton, MF Smith: Paraphyly, polyphyly, and the nature of species boundaries in pocket gophers (genus Thomomys) . Systematic Biology. 43, 1994, pp. 11-26. doi: 10.1093 / sysbio / 43.1.11 .
  4. ↑ Patton, JL; Da Silva, MNF; Malcolm, JYR (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
  5. ^ Moritz, C .; Patton, JL; Conroy, CJ; Parra, JL; White, GC; Beissinger, SR (2008). Impact of a Century of Climate Change on Small-Mammal Communities in Yosemite National Park, USA . Science. 322 (5899): 261-264. doi: 10.1126 / science.1163428 . PMID 18845755 .
personal data
SURNAME Patton, James L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Patton, James Lloyd (full name); Patton, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American evolutionary biologist and mammal scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Louis , Missouri