David L. Ballantine, Ph.D.

My research interests are systematics, life histories, morphology, ecology and natural products from Caribbean marine algae. Present research involves study of secondary metabolites of algae which display biological activity. Role that these compounds play in the physiology of the organisms that produce them and the environmental control of their synthesis are topics currently under investigation. Other activities include study of macro cyanophyte and chlorophyte blooms which are negatively impacting inshore seagrass beds in the region of La Parguera (southwest Puerto Rico). I am presently coordinating the marine algal flora section of the New York Botanical Garden's "Flora of the Greater Antilles". Along with Dr. Nilda Aponte, we have recently completed A Revised Checklist of the Marine Algal Flora of Puerto Rico.

Send e-mail to: d_ballantine@rumac.uprm.edu

Selected Publications:

Ballantine, D., and H. J. Humm. 1975. Benthic algae of the Anclote Estuary I. Epiphytes of seagrass leaves. Florida Scientist, 38: 150-162.

 

Ballantine, D. L. 1979. The distribution of algal epiphytes on macrophyte hosts offshore from La Parguera, Puerto Rico. Botanica Marina, 22: 107-111.

 

Almodovar, L. R., D. L. Ballantine, and H. L. Blomquist. 1979. Some benthic marine algae new to Puerto Rico. Florida Scientist, 42: 136-141.

 

Ballantine, D. L. 1982. Halimeda hummii sp. nov., Halimeda cryptica v. acerifolia var. nov. (Caulerpales, Chlorophyta), and additional records of Halimeda species from Puerto Rico. Journal of Phycology, 18: 86-91.

 

Ballantine, D. L. 1985. Botryocladia wynnei sp. nov. (Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta) plus an additional species record of the genus in Puerto Rico. Phycologia 24: 199-204.

 

Ballantine, D. L., and M. J. Wynne. 1985. Platysiphonia and Apoglossum (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) in the tropical western Atlantic. Phycologia, 24: 459-465.

 

Wynne, M.J. and D.L. Ballantine. 1985. Notes on the algae of Puerto Rico. IV. The taxonomic placement of Grallatoria (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). Cryptogamie: Algologie, 6: 219-229.

 

Ballantine, D. L., A. T. Bardales, T. R. Tosteson, and H. Dupont Durst. 1985. Seasonal abundance of Gambierdiscus toxicus and Ostreopsis sp. in coastal waters of southwest Puerto Rico. Fifth International Coral Reef Congress. Papeete, Tahiti. Vol. 4: 417-422.

 

Ballantine, D. L. and M. J. Wynne. 1986. Notes on the marine algal flora of Puerto Rico. I. Additions to the flora. Botanica Marina, 29: 131-135. 1986.

 

Wynne, M.J. and D.L. Ballantine. 1986. Hypoglossum anomalum sp. nov. (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) and a discussion of the genus in the tropical western Atlantic. Journal of Phycology, 22: 185-193.

 

Searles, R.B. and D.L. Ballantine. 1986. Dudresnaya puertoricensis sp. nov. (Dumontiaceae, Gigartinales, Rhodophyta). Journal of Phycology, 22: 389-394.

 

Ballantine, D.L. and M.J. Wynne. 1986. Notes on the marine algae of Puerto Rico II. Additions of Ceramiaceae (Rhodophyta) including Ceramium verongiae sp. nov. Botanica Marina, 29: 497-502.

 

Soto, R and D.L. Ballantine. 1986. La flora benthonica marina del Caribe de Costa Rica (notas preliminares). Brenesia, 25-26: 123-162.

 

Ballantine, D.L. and M.J. Wynne. 1987. Notes on the marine algae of Puerto Rico. III. Branchioglossum pseudoprostratum sp. nov. and B . prostratum Schneider (Rhodophyta: Delesseriaceae). Bulletin of Marine Science, 40: 240-245.

 

Hinds, P. and D.L. Ballantine. 1987. Effects of the Caribbean threespot damselfish Stegastes planifrons (Cuvier), on algal lawn composition. Aquatic Botany, 27: 299-308.

 

Aponte, N.E. and D.L. Ballantine. 1987. The life history and development of Murrayella periclados (C. Agardh) Schmitz (Rhodophyta, Rhodomelaceae) in culture. Cryptogamie: Algologie, 8: 29-39.

 

Ballantine, D.L., W.H. Gerwick, S.M. Velez, E. Alexander and P. Guevara. 1987. Antibiotic activity of lipid-soluble extracts from Caribbean marine algae. Hydrobiologia, 151/152: 463-469.

 

Ballantine, D.L. and M.J. Wynne. 1988. The life history and development of Hypoglossum rhizophorum (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) in culture, a new deep-water species from the Caribbean. Journal of Phycology, 24: 8-12.

 

Ballantine, D.L., T.R. Tosteson, H.D. Durst and A.T. Bardales. 1988. Population dynamics and toxicity of natural populations of benthic dinoflagellates in southwest Puerto Rico. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 119: 201-212.

 

Tosteson, T.R., D.L. Ballantine and H.D. Durst. 1988. Seasonal frequency of ciguatoxic barracuda in southwest Puerto Rico. Toxicon, 26: 795-801.

 

Tosteson, T.R., D.L. Ballantine, C. Tosteson, V. Hensley and A. Bardales. 1989. Associated bacterial flora, growth and toxicity of cultured benthic dinoflagellates, Ostreopsis lenticularis and Gambierdiscus toxicus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 55: 137-141.

 

Wynne, M.J., I.R. Price and D.L. Ballantine. 1989. Distinctions between Hypoglossum barbatum Okamura, H . minimum Yamada and H . simulans sp. nov. (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia, 28: 28-38.

 

Moghaddam, M.F., W.H. Gerwick and D.L. Ballantine. 1989. Discovery of 12-(S)-Hydroxy-5,8,10,14-Icosatetraenoic acid [12-(S)-Hete] in the tropical red alga Platysiphonia miniata. Prostaglandins, 37: 303-308.

 

Ballantine, D.L. 1989. Reproduction in Caribbean plants of Botryocladia pyriformis and B . wynnei (Rhodymeniales, Rhodophyta). Phycologia, 28: 237-242.

 

Ballantine, D.L. and J.N. Norris. 1989. Notes on the marine algae of Puerto Rico. V. New species additions. Caribbean Journal of Science, 25: 1-8.

 

Ballantine, D.L. 1990. Ceramium bisporum sp. nov. (Rhodophyta, Ceramiales), an unusual new species from deep-water habitats in the Caribbean. Phycologia, 29: 146-149.

 

Aponte, N.E. and D.L. Ballantine. 1990. The life history in culture of Callithamnion boergesenii sp. nov. (Rhodophyta, Ceramiaceae) from the Caribbean. Phycologia, 29: 191-199.

 

Moghaddam, M.F., W.H. Gerwick, and D.L. Ballantine. 1990. Discovery of the mammalian insulin release modulator, hepoxilin B3, from the tropical red algae Platysiphonia miniata and Cottoniella filamentosa. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 265: 6126-6130.

 

Wynne, M.J. and D.L. Ballantine. 1991. Laurencia iridescens, sp. nov. (Rhodomelaceae, Ceramiales) from the Caribbean Sea. Phycologia, 30: 394-401.

 

Aponte, N.E. and D.L. Ballantine. 1991. The life history in culture of Seirospora occidentalis (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Caribbean. Cryptogamic Botany, 2: 261-268.

 

Aponte, N.E. and D.L. Ballantine. 1992. The life history in culture of Pleonosporium caribaeum (Børgesen) R.E. Norris (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Caribbean. Cryptogamie Algol. 13: 15-23.

 

Ballantine, D.L. and J.N. Norris. 1994. Verdigellas, a new palmelloid genus (Tetrasporales, Chlorophyta) from the tropical west Atlantic. Cryptogamic Botany 4: 368-372.

 

Aponte, N.E., D.L. Ballantine and J.N. Norris. 1994. Culture studies on the morphology and life history of Aglaothamnion herveyi (Howe) comb. nov., with notes on A. felipponei (Howe) comb. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). Phycologia 33: 231-238.

 

Ballantine, D.L., N.E. Aponte, and J. G. Holmquist. 1994. Multi-species algal balls and potentially imprisoned fauna: an unusual benthic assemblage. Aquatic Botany, 48: 167-174.

 

Aponte, N.E. and D.L. Ballantine. 1995. Aglaothamnion flexibile sp. nov. and Seirospora viridis sp. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico. Phycologia 34: 102-112.

 

Norris, J.N. and D.L. Ballantine. 1995. Two new species of the red alga Chrysymenia J. Agardh (Rhodymeniales, Rhodymeniaceae) from the tropical western Atlantic. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 108: 153-165.

 

D. L. Ballantine and N. E. Aponte. 1995. Laurencia coelenterata (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta), a new diminutive species from the Dry Tortugas, Florida. Botanica Marina, 38: 417-421.

 

Ballantine, D.L. 1996. New benthic marine algal species records from Florida. Gulf of Mexico Science, 1: 11-15.

 

Cruz Adames, V.M. and D.L. Ballantine. 1996. Asexual Reproduction in Laurencia poiteaui (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta). Botanica Marina, 39: 75-77.

 

Robles Centeno, P. O., D. L. Ballantine and W. H. Gerwick. 1996. Dynamics of Antibacterial Activity in Three Species of Caribbean Marine Algae as a Function of Habitat and Life History. Hydrobiologia, 326/327: 457-462.

 

D. L. Ballantine and N. E. Aponte. 1996. Verdigellas nektongammea (Tetrasporales, Chlorophyta), a new deep-water species from the Bahamas. Nova Hedwigia, 62:425-429.

 

Aponte, N.E., D. L. Ballantine, and J.N. Norris. 1997. Aglaothamnion halliae (Collins) comb. nov. and A. collinsii sp. nov. (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta): a resolution of nomenclatural and taxonomic confusion. Journal of Phycology, 33: 81-87.

 

Ballantine, D. L. and N. E. Aponte. 1997. Notes on the Benthic Marine Algae of Puerto Rico VI. Additions to the Flora. Botanica Marina, 40: 39-44.

 

Ballantine, D.L. and N.E. Aponte. 1997. A revised checklist of the benthic marine algae known to Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science, 33: 150-179.

 

Ballantine, D.L. and M.J. Wynne. 1998. Ptilothamnion speluncarum (Collins & Herv.) comb. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico. Cryptogamie Algol. 19: 223-229.

Robles Centeno, P. O. and D. L. Ballantine. 1999. The effects of culture conditions on the production of antibiotic metabolites by the marine alga Spyridia filamentosa (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). I. Light. J. Appl. Phycol. 11: 217-224.

Ballantine, D.L. A. Bowden-Kerby, and N.E. Aponte. 2000. Cruoriella (Peyssonneliaceae, Rhodophyta) Rhodoliths from Shallow-Water Back Reef Environments in La Parguera, Puerto Rico (Caribbean Sea). Coral Reefs 19: 75-81..

Zamora Tovar, C. and D.L. Ballantine. 2000 Multiple antimicrobial activities demonstrated by the marine alga Spyridia filamentosa (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta). Botanica Marina 43: 233-238.

Ballantine, D.L. 2000. Dasya magnei sp. nov. (Dasyaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Caribbean Sea. Cryptogamie Algologie 21: 149-155.

Huisman, J.., D.L. Ballantine and M.J. Wynne. 2001. Liagorothamnion mucoides gen. et sp. nov. (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Caribbean Sea. Phycologia. 39: 507-516.

López-Piñero, I.Y. and D.L. Ballantine. 2001. Ontogenesis and life history in culture of Dasya caraibica Børgesen. Phycologia. 40: 47-52.

Aponte, N.E. and D.L. Ballantine. 2001. Depth Distribution of Algal Species on the Deep Insular Fore Reef at Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas. Deep Sea Research Part I, 48: 2185-2194.

Lopez-Cabrera, I.Y. and D.L. Ballantine. 2001. Dasya puertoricensis sp. nov. (Dasyaceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Botanica Marina 44: 337-344.

Ballantine, D.L. and N.E. Aponte. 2002. Botryocladia bahamense sp. nov. (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Bahamas, west Atlantic. Cryptogamie Algologie. In Press.

Ballantine, D.L. and N.E. Aponte. 2002. Ganonema farinosa and Ganonema dendroidea comb. nov. (Liagoraceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Cryptogamie Algologie. In Press.

Ballantine, D.L., H. Ruiz and N.E. Aponte. 2002. Predaea goffiana sp. nov. (Nemastomataceae, Rhodophyta) from Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea. Botanica Marina. In Press.

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