Gregor William Yeates, publishing as Games Workshop Yeates, was a New Zealand soil zoologist and ecologist.
Education
His Doctor of Philosophy (under WC Clarke) and Doctor of Science were both at Canterbury University. He studied the New Zealand flatworm Arthurdendyus triangulatus in its native environment, supporting work in the United Kingdom where it became established as an invasive pest.
Career
He was "considered the world"s leading authority in soil nematode ecology, a subject of economic and ecological importance." He spent most of his working life at Soil Bureau, a division of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which became Landcare Research. He published over 200 papers and described over 100 species in genera including Longidorus, Xiphinema, Hemicycliophora, Trischistoma, Dorylaimida and Iotonchus. Holotypes of Yeates"s are the earliest in the National Nematode Collection of New Zealand He was the son of Massey founding staff member John Stuart Yeates.
He was elected to the Rimutaka ward of the Upper Hutt City Council (1973–1977) and the Hutt Valley Drainage Board (1973–1977).
He was later involved with Te Manawa in Palmerston North and the Royal Society of New Zealand at both a local and a national level Nuffield Travelling Scholarship (1977) Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1998) Fellow of the New Zealand Society of Soil Science (1995) Fellow of the Society of Nematologists (2007) Editorial Board of Journal of Nematology.
Office holder in the Royal Society of New Zealand Manawatu Branch Officeholder in the Royal Society of New Zealand Wellington Branch from 1981, including 1987-1988 Upper Hutt City Councillor and Hutt Valley Drainage Board member from 1973 to 1977 Council of the New Zealand Rhododendron Association 1997–2000 Heritage Park Rhododendron Charitable Trust Trustee President of the New Zealand Society of Parasitology during 1990–1991.