EDUCATION:

B.A. (with distinction) University of Arizona, 1963 (major: anthropology) 
M.S. University of Arizona, 1965 (major: zoology) 
Ph.D. University of Arizona, 1969 (major: zoology; minor: geochronology) 

Graduate Teaching Assistant, The University of Arizona, 1963-1965. 
Graduate Teaching Associate, The University of Arizona, 1965-1966. 
Research Associate, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, 1966. 
National Defense Education Act Title IV fellowship, 1966-1968. 
Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator, Department of Zoology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 1969-1974. 
Associate Professor and Associate Curator, Department of Zoology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 1974-1979. 
Professor and Curator, Department of Zoology (now Integrative Biology) and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 1979-present. 
Associate Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 1982-1998. 
Acting Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, 1988-1989, 1992, 1996, 1998-present. 
Research Associate, Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1983-present. 
Research Associate, Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1988-present.Research Associate, The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1999-present.

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1965-present (elected Fellow, 1986). 
American Association of Zoological Nomenclature, 1989-present. 
American Society of Mammalogists, 1963-present (life member). 
American Society of Naturalists, 1969-present. 
Genetics Society of America, 1965-present. 
Society of Systematic Biology, 1969-present. 
Society for the Study of Mammalian Evolution, 1992-present. 
Society for the Study of Evolution, 1969-present. 
Society of Sigma Xi, 1965-present (life member). 
Society for Conservation Biology, 1987-present (charter member). 
Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, 1991-present. 
Southwestern Association of Naturalists, 1964-present (life member). 
The Willi Hennig Society, 1986-present. 

American Society of Mammalogists: member, Board of Directors, 1972-1984; 2nd Vice President, 1984-1988, 1989-1990; 1st Vice President, 1988-1989; President, 1992-1994. 
Society of Systematic Biology: Councilor, 1981. 
Society for the Study of Evolution: 2nd Vice President, 1984. 
Charles Darwin Foundation: member, Board of Directors, 1977-1982. 
National Science Foundation: member, Systematic Biology Panel, 1982-1986; member, Facilities and Research Centers Panel, 1987; member, Oversight Committee for Systematics Program, 1988; member, Special Awards Panel, 1991. 
National Research Council, Board on Biology biodiversity review, 1991. 
Third International Theriological Congress, Helsinki: symposium organizer, 1982. 
Seventh International Theriological Congress, Acapulco: symposium organizer, 1997. 
Harvard University: member, Board of Overseers, Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1984-1991. 

Journal of Mammalogy: Editor for Reviews, 1976-1981. 
Evolution: Associate Editor, 1980-1982, 1988-1991. 
Systematic Zoology/Biology: Editorial Board, 1984-1986, 1992-1994. 
University of California Publications in Zoology: Chairman, Editorial Board, 1980-present. 
Current Mammalogy: Editorial Board, 1984-present. 
Genetica: Associate Editor, 1990-present. 
Israel Journal of Zoology: Editorial Board, 1992-1998.

Recipient of C. Hart Merriam Award for Distinguished Research in Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, 1983. 
Elected Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, 1984. 
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1986. 
Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1984. 
Miller Professorship, Miller Institute for Basic Research, University of California, Berkeley, 1989. 
Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate of the University of California, Berkeley, 1991. 
Recipient of Joseph Grinnell Award for Excellence in Education in Mammalogy, American Society of Mammalogists, 1998. 
Sewall Wright Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1999.

Evolutionary theory; evolution, genetics, ecology, systematics, and biogeography of mammals, with emphasis on Geomyoid and Neotropical rodents and marsupials. 
 

GRADUATE STUDENTS:
 

PhD Philip Myers  Sally J. Holbrook  Susan M. Case  Mark S. Hafner  Donald O. Straney  Margaret F. Smith  Laurence Frank  John C. Hafner  Steven W. Sherwood  Angel Spotorno O. (Chile)  Elizabeth D. Pierson  William R. Rainey  Duke S. Rogers  Claudia M. Luke  Patrick A. Kelly (Ireland)  Hon-Tsen Yu (Taiwan)  Francis X. Villablanca  Márcia C. Lara (Brazil)  Mary Ellen Holden  Bernard Peyton III  Maria Nazareth F. da Silva (Brazil)  Meika A. Mustrangi (Brazil)  Elizabeth D. Hadly  Albert D. Ditchfield (Brazil)  Current Students Leonora P. Costa (Brazil)  Yuri R. Leite (Brazil)  Luis Fernando Garcia (Colombia)  Marjorie D. Matocq  Tina Hambuch  Steven Takata  Randy Reiserer

MA  Julianne H. Feder   Pamela Williams   Mary Anne Rogers   Patricia Garvey-Darda   Maria Alicia Barros (Venezuela)   Post-Doctoral Scholars  James T. Mascarello   Margaret F. Smith   Joanne C. Daly (Australia)   Enrique P. Lessa (Uruguay)   Liliana Apfelbaum (Argentina)   Eileen A. Lacey   Manuel Ruedi (Switzerland)   Nathan Lovejoy (Canada)   J. Carlos Garza

 PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1985

 [*refereed journal papers, #refereed book chapters, ## refereed symposia volumes, ^edited volumes] 

*67. Patton, J.L., and L.H. Emmons. 1985. A review of the genus Isothrix (Rodentia: Echimyidae). Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 2817, 14 pp. 

*68. Barros, M.A., and J.L. Patton. 1985. Genome studies in pocket gophers (genus Thomomys). III. Fluorochrome-revealed heterochromatin heterogeneity. Chromosoma 92:337-343.

 

 *69. Patton, J.L. 1985. Population structure and the genetics of speciation in pocket gophers, genus Thomomys. Acta Zool. Fennica 170:109-114. 

*70. Zink, R.M., M.F. Smith, and J.L. Patton. 1985. Association between heterozygosity and morphological variance. Jour. Heredity 76:415-420. 

*71. Daly, J.C., and J.L. Patton. 1986. Growth, reproduction, and sexual dimorphism in Thomomys bottae pocket gophers. Jour. Mammal. 67:256-265.

 

*72. Sage, R.D., J.R. Contreras, V.G. Roig, and J.L. Patton. 1986. Genetic variation in the South American burrowing rodents of the genus Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae). Z. Saüget. 51:158-172.

 

*73. Hafner, M.S., J.C. Hafner, J.L. Patton, and M.F. Smith. 1987. Macrogeographic patterns of genetic differentiation in pocket gophers, Thomomys umbrinus. Syst. Zool. 36:18-34.

 

*74. Patton, J.L., and P.V. Brylski. 1987. Pocket gophers in alfalfa fields: causes and consequences of habitat-related body size variation. Amer. Nat. 130:493-506. 

#75. Lidicker, W.Z., Jr., and J.L. Patton. 1987. Patterns of dispersal and genetic structure in populations of small rodents. Pp. 144-161, in Mammalian Dispersal Patterns (B.D. Chepko-Sade and Z.T. Halpin, eds.). Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago. 

*76. Hinojosa P., F., S. Anderson, and J.L. Patton. 1987. Two new species of Oxymycterus (Rodentia) from Peru and Bolivia. Amer. Mus. Novitates, no. 2898, 17 pp. 

 

#77. Patton, J.L. 1987. The species groups of spiny rats, genus Proechimys (Rodentia: Echimyidae). Pp. 305-345, in, Studies in Neotropical Mammalogy: Essays in honor of Philip Hershkovitz (B.D. Patterson and R.M. Timm, eds.). Fieldiana: Zoology, new ser., No. 39.

 

*78. Lillegraven, J.A., S.D. Thompson, B.K. McNab, and J.L. Patton. 1987. The origin of eutherian mammals. Biol. Jour. Linnean Soc. 32: 281-336.

 

*79. Patton, J.L. 1987. Patrones de distribución y especiación de la fauna de mamíferos de los bosques nublados andinos del Perú. An. Mus. Hist. Nat. Valparaiso 17:87-94 (1986, published in 1987).

 

*80. Smith, M.F., and J.L. Patton. 1988. Subspecies of pocket gophers: causal bases for geographic differentiation in Thomomys bottae. Syst. Zool. 37:163-178.

#81. Cadle, J.E., and J.L. Patton. 1988. Distribution patterns of some amphibians, reptiles, and mammals of the eastern Andean slope of southern Peru. Pp. 225-244, in, Proc. Workshop Neotropical Distribution Patterns (W.R. Heyer and P.E. Vanzolini, eds.). Academia Brasileira de Ciencias: Rio de Janeiro.

 

*82. Patton, J.L., P. Myers, and M.F. Smith. 1989. Electromorphic variation in selected South American Akodontine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae), with comments on systematic implications. Zeit. Sauget. 54:347-359.

 

 *83. Patton, J.L., and M.F. Smith. 1989. Population structure and the genetic and morphologic divergence among pocket gopher species (genus Thomomys). Pp. 284-304, in Speciation and its consequences (D. Otte and J.A. Endler, eds.). Sinauer Assoc.

*84. Lessa, E.P., and J.L. Patton. 1989. Structural constraints, recurrent shapes, and allometry in pocket gophers (genus Thomomys). Biol. J. Linnean Soc. 36:349 363.

 

*85. Myers, P., and J.L. Patton. 1989. A new species of Akodon from the cloud forests of eastern Cochabamba Department, Bolivia (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Occas. Papers Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich., No. 720:1-28.

 

*86. Myers, P., and J.L. Patton. 1989. The Akodon of Peru and Bolivia -- Revision of the "fumeus group" (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae). Occas. Papers Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich., No. 721:1-35.

 

*87. Musser, G.G., and J.L. Patton. 1989. Systematic studies of oryzomyine rodents (Muridae): the identity of Oecomys phelpsi Tate. Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 2961, 6 pp.

 

#88. Patton, J.L., and O.A. Reig. 1989. Genetic differentiation among echimyid rodents, with emphasis on spiny rats, genus Proechimys. Pp. 75-96, in Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy (J.F. Eisenberg and K.H. Redford, eds.). The Sandhill Crane Press.

 

#89. Patton, J.L. 1990. Geomyid evolution: the historical, selective, and random basis for divergence patterns within and among species. Pp. 49-69, in Evolution of Subterranean Mammals at the Organismal and Molecular Levels (E. Nevo and O.A. Reig, eds.). Wiley-Liss, New York.

 

*90. Myers, P., J.L. Patton, and M.F. Smith. 1990. A review of the boliviensis group of Akodon (Muridae: Sigmodontinae), with emphasis on Peru and Bolivia. Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich., 177:1-104.

 

*91. Patterson, B.D., and J.L. Patton. 1990. Fluctuating asymmetry and genic heterozygosity in pocket gophers. Biol. J. Linnean Soc. 40:21-36.

 

*92. Abaturov, B.D., S.I. Isayev, I. Ya. Pavlinov, and J.L. Patton. 1990. Rodent populations in man-made grasslands in Peruvian tropical forests. Biol. Mock. 95:38-44. [in Russian].

 

*93. Patton, J.L., and M.F. Smith. 1990. Evolutionary dynamics of the pocket gopher Thomomys bottae, with emphasis on California populations. Univ. California Publ. Zool. 123:vii-161.

 

*94. Daly, J.C., and J.L. Patton. 1990. Dispersal, gene flow, and allelic diversity between local populations of Thomomys bottae pocket gophers in the coastal ranges of California. Evolution 44:1283-1294.

 

#95. Patton, J.L., P. Myers, and M.F. Smith. 1990. Vicariant versus gradient diversification: the small mammal fauna of eastern Andean slopes of Peru. Pp. 355-371, in Vertebrates in the Tropics (G. Peters and R. Hutterer, eds.). Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn.

 

*96. Smith, M.F., and J.L. Patton. 1991. Variation in mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence in natural populations of South American akodontine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae). Mol. Biol. Evol. 8(1):85-103.

 

*97. Smith, M.F., and J.L. Patton. 1991. Identical sequences via PCR on dried skin and liver extracts from the same individual. Trends in Genetics 7(1):4.

 

*98. Smith, M.F., W.K. Thomas, and J.L. Patton. 1992. Mitochondrial DNA-like sequence in the nuclear genome of an akodontine rodent. Mol. Biol. Evol. 9(2):204-215. 

*99. Patton, J.L., and M.F. Smith. 1992. mtDNA phylogeny of Andean mice: a test of diversification across ecological gradients. Evolution 46:174-183.

 

#100. Patton, J.L., and M.F. Smith. 1992. Evolution and systematics of Akodontine rodents (Muridae: Sigmodontinae) of Perú, with emphasis on the genus Akodon. Pp. 83-103, in Biogeografía, Ecología, y Conservación del Bosque Montano en el Perú (K.R. Young and N. Valencia, eds). Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat., Lima, no. 21.

 

#101. Patton, J.L. 1993. Family Geomyidae. Pp. 469-476, in Mammal Species of the World, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

 

#102. Patton, J.L. 1993. Family Heteromyidae. Pp. 477-486, in Mammal Species of the World, a taxonomic and geographic reference, Second ed. (D.E. Wilson and D.M. Reeder, eds.). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

 

*103. Patton, J.L., and M.F. Smith. 1993. Molecular evidence for mating asymmetry and female choice in a pocket gopher hybrid zone (Thomomys). Molecular Ecology 2(1):1-8. 

#104. Patton, J.L. 1993. Hybridization and hybrid zones in pocket gophers (Rodentia, Geomyidae). Pp. 290-308, in Hybrid Zones and the Evolutionary Process (R.G. Harrison, ed.). Oxford Univ. Press, New York.

 

#105. Patton, J.L., and D.S. Rogers. 1993. Cytogenetics. In, Biology of Heteromyid Rodents (H.H. Genoways and J.H. Brown, eds.). Spec. Publ. Amer. Soc. Mammal.

#106. Patton, J.L., and D.S. Rogers. 1993. Biochemical Genetics. In, Biology of Heteromyid Rodents (H.H. Genoways and J.H. Brown, eds.). Spec. Publ. Amer. Soc. Mammal.

 

*107. Pacheco, V., B.D. Patterson, J.L. Patton, L.H. Emmons, S. Solari, and C. Ascorra. 1993. List of mammal species known to occur in the Manu Biosphere Reserve, Peru. Publ. Mus. Hist. Nat. UNMSM (A) 44:1-12.

 

*108. da Silva, M.N.F., and J.L. Patton. 1993. Amazonian phylogeography: mtDNA sequence variation in arboreal echimyid rodents. Mol. Phylo. Evol. 2:243-255.

 

*109. Smith, M.F., and J.L. Patton. 1993. Diversification of South American muroid rodents: evidence from mitochondrial DNA sequence data for the Akodontine tribe. Biol. Journal Linnean Society 50:149-177.

 

*110. Patton, J.L., and M.F. Smith. 1994. Paraphyly, polyphyly, and the nature of species boundaries in pocket gophers (genus Thomomys). Syst. Biol. 43(1):11 26.

 

*111. Patton, J.L., M.N.F. da Silva, and J.R. Malcolm. 1994. Gene genealogy and differentiation among arboreal spiny rats (Rodentia: Echimyidae) of the Amazon Basin: a test of the riverine barrier hypothesis. Evolution 48:1314 1323.

 

*112. Patton, J.L., and M.N.F. da Silva. 1995. A review of the spiny mouse genus Scolomys (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) with the description of a new species from the western Amazon of Brazil. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 108(2):319-337.

 

*113. Pacheco, V., and J.L. Patton. 1995. A new species of puna mouse, Punomys Osgood 1943, from the southeastern Andes of Peru. Z. Saügetierkunde 60:85 96.

 

*114. Patton, J.L., S.F. dos Reis, and M.N.F. da Silva. 1996. Relationships among didelphid marsupials based on sequence variation in the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. J. Mammalian Evolution 3:3-29.

 

*115. Lara, M.C., J.L. Patton, and M.N.F. da Silva. 1996. The simultaneous diversification of echimyid rodents Hystricognathi) based on complete cytochrome b sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 5:403-413.

 

*116. Patton, J.L., M.N.F. da Silva, and J.R. Malcolm. 1996. Hierarchical genetic structure and gene flow in three sympatric species of Amazonian rodents. Molecular Ecology 5:229-238.

 

*117.Fonseca, G.A.B. da, G. Herrmann, Y.L.R. Leite, R.A. Mittermeier, A.B. Rylands, and J.L. Patton. 1996. Lista Anotada dos mamiferos do Brasil. Occasional Papers in Conservation Biology, Conservation International, No. 4:1-38.

 

*118. Peres, C.A., J.L. Patton, and M.N.F. da Silva. 1996. Riverine barriers and gene flow in Amazonian saddle-back tamarin monkeys. Folia Primatologica, 67:113-124.8

 

*119. Mustrangi, M.A., and J.L. Patton. 1997. Phylogeography and systematics of the Slender mouse opossum Marmosops (Marsupialia, Didelphidae). Univ. California Publ. Zoology, vol. 130:1-86.

 

*120. Vié, J.C., V. Volobouev, L. Granjon, and J.L. Patton. 1997. A new species of Isothrix (Rodentia: Echimyidae) from French Guiana. Mammalia, 60(3):393 406.

 

*121. Patton, J.L., and M.N.F. da Silva. 1997. Definition of species of pouched four eyed opossums (Didelphidae, Philander). Journal of Mammalogy, 78(1):90 102.

 

*122.Ruedi, M., M.F. Smith, and J.L. Patton. 1997. Phylogenetic evidence of mitochondrial DNA introgression among pocket gophers in New Mexico (family Geomyidae). Molecular Ecology 6:453-462.

 

#123. Patton, J.L., M.N.F. da Silva, M.C. Lara, and M.A. Mustrangi. 1997. Diversity, differentiation, and the historical biogeography of non-volant small mammals of the neotropical forests. In W.F. Lawrence and R.O. Bierregaard, Jr. (eds.) Tropical Forest Fragments: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. University of Chicago Press.

 

* 124. LaVergne, A., O. Verneau, J.L. Patton, and F.M. Catzeflis. 1997. Molecular discrimination of two sympatric species of opossum (genus Didelphis: Didelphidae) in French Guiana. Molecular Ecology 6:889-891.

 

* 125. da Silva, M.N.F., and J.L. Patton. 1998. Molecular phylogeography and the evolution and conversvation of Amazonian mammals. Molecular Ecology 7:475-486.

 

#126. Patton, J.L., and M.N.F. da Silva. 1998. Rivers, refuges, and ridges: the geography of speciation of Amazonian mammals. Pp. 202-213, in "Endless Forms: Modes and Mechanisms of Speciation", edited by D. Howard and S. Berlocher. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.

 

^127. Alvarez-Castañeda, S.T., and J.L. Patton. 1999. Los Mamíferos del Noroeste. Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, La Paz. 583 pp.

#128. Patton, J.L. 1999. Family Geomyidae. Pp. 321-350, in "Los Mamíferos del Noroeste", edited by S.T. Alvarez C. and J.L. Patton. Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, La Paz.

#129. Patton, J.L., and S.T. Alvarez-Castañeda. 1999. Family Heteromyidae. Pp. 351 442, in "Los Mamíferos del Noroeste", edited by S.T. Alvarez C. and J.L. Patton. Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, La Paz.

*130. Smith, M.F., and J.L. Patton. 1999. Phylogenetic relationships and the radiation of sigmodontine rodents in South America: evidence from cytochrome b. J. Mamm. Evol. 6(2): 89-128.

#131. Patton, J.L. Thomomys bottae, clusius, idahoensis, mazama, monticola, umbrinus, and Pappogeomys castanops. Species accounts for The Complete Book of North American Mammals (D.E. Wilson, editor), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

*132. Patton, J.L., M.N.F. da Silva, and J.R. Malcolm. 1999. Mammals of the Rio Juruá: Evolutionary and ecological diversification within Amazonia. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.

 

^133.Lacey, E.A., J.L. Patton, and G.G. Cameron. 2000. Life below ground: The biology of subterranean rodents. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 

#134. Steinberg, E.K., and J.L. Patton. 2000. Genetic structure and the geography of speciation in subterranean rodents. In, E.A. Lacey, J.L. Patton, and G.G. Cameron (eds.), Life below ground: The biology of subterranean rodents. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

#135. Pattton, J.L., and M.N.F. da Silva. Riverine diversification and the phylogeography of Amazonian mammals. In, C. Moritz (ed.), Rainforests: Past and Future. University of Chicago Press.

 

#136. Moritz, C., C. Schneider, T.B. Smith, and J.L. Patton. 1999. Tropical rainforest diversity: perspectives from molecular systematics, populations genetics, and paleoecology. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst.

 

*137. Fleck, D. W., R. S. Voss, and J. L. Patton. 1999. Testing the biological basis of saki monkey (Pithecia) "species" recognized by the Matses Indians of Amazonian Peru. International J. Primatology.

*138. Lara, M.C., and J.L. Patton. Molecular phylogeography and systematics of spiny rats of the Atlantic Forest of Brazil (genus Trinomys). Zool. J. Linnean Soc.

 

*139. Patton, J.L., and L. P. Costa. 1999. Diversidade, limites geográficos e sistemáticos de marsupiais Brasilieros. In, Marsupiais Brasileiros (N. C. Cáceres e E. L. A. Monteiro-Filho, eds.). Editora da Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brasil.