Terry Yates

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Terry Lamon Yates (March 17, 1950 – December 11, 2007) was an American

rodents and other small mammals.[1]

Early life

Terry Yates was born in Mayfield, Kentucky.[1] He earned his bachelor's degree from Murray State University before completing his master's degree in biology from Texas A&M in 1975. He later received his doctorate in biology from Texas Tech University in 1978.[1]

Hantavirus

Residents living in the

Sin Nombre," after a New Mexican canyon where Spanish settlers massacred Native Americans during the colonial era.[1]

Terry Yates, a

deer mouse, a species which had a higher than usual population in early 1993 due to unusually wet weather in the region.[1] The discovery of the hantavirus' origin by Yates has helped to save lives and warn residents about the risks of the disease.[1] The virus has killed more than 125 people between 1993 and 2007.[1]

Yates spent the later years of his life studying the connection between wet

weather patterns and deer mice populations.[1]

The National Science Foundation named Yates' discovery of the cause of the hantavirus as one of the top fifty projected funded by the NSF which had the greatest impact on peoples' lives.[1]

University of New Mexico

Yates was affiliated with the University of New Mexico for 29 years before his death in 2007.[1] He served as a professor of biology and pathology, before becoming the UNM's vice president for research and economic development, a position he held until his death.[1]

Additionally, Yates directed the National Science Foundation's Division of

National Academy of Sciences.[1]

Death

Yates lived in Placitas, New Mexico.[1] He died of cancer on December 11, 2007, at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the age of 57.[1]

In 2017, a recently discovered species of the Oligoryzomys genus (O. yatesi) was named after him as an homage for his "important contribution to the Chilean mammalogy research".[2] In 2014, a new species of subterranean rodent from South America was named after Dr. Yates which is called Yates's tuco-tuco, Ctenomys yatesi Gardner et al., 2014[3][4][5]

References

  1. ^
    Boston Globe
    . Retrieved 2007-01-04.
  2. ^ Eduardo Palma, R; Rodríguez-Serrano, Enrique (2017-12-01). Systematics of Oligoryzomys (Rodentia, Cricetidae, Sigmodontinae) from southern Chilean Patagonia, with the description of a new species.
  3. ^ Gardner, Scott L.; Salazar-Bravo, Jorge; Cook, Joseph A. (17 June 2014). "New Species of Ctenomys Blainville 1826 (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from the Lowlands and Central Valleys of Bolivia"
  4. ^ Leslie Reed (18 July 2014). "Gardner leads discovery of four new tuco-tuco species". UNL Today. University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  5. ^ Carson Vaughan (17 July 2014). "Found: 4 New Species of Gopher-Like Mammals". National Geographic. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
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