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Jim Ballantyne

Jim Ballantyne

Professor Emeritus

College of Biological Science, Department of Integrative Biology

jballant@uoguelph.ca
http://comparativephys.ca/ballantynelab/

Profile

My interest in aquatic organisms began at an early age as I grew up fishing on the Rideau River system in Ontario. This was reinforced and focused in my undergraduate and graduate degrees where I developed my interests in physiology and biochemistry. My Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia with Peter Hochachka fixed my interests in the mechanisms of biochemical adaptation.

Education

  • BSc Guelph 1973
  • MSc Guelph 1976
  • PhD British Columbia 1981

Select Publications

  • Ballantyne, J. S. and Fraser, D. I. (2013). Euryhaline elasmobranchs. In: Euryhaline Fishes. Fish Physiology Volume 32 (eds. McCormick, S. D., Farrell, A. P., and Brauner, C. J.), pp. 125-198. Amsterdam: Academic Press.
  • Ballantyne, J. S. (2013). Membranes and metabolism of fishes. In: The physiology of fishes (ed. Evans, D. H.), CRC Press.
  • Fraser, D. I. and Ballantyne, J. S. (2013). Freshwater elasmobranchs: why so few species. Shark Focus Issue 46 March 2013, 4-5.
  • Robinson, J. W., Yanke, D., and Ballantyne, J. S. (2013). Plasma free amino acid kinetics in a shark (Squalus acanthias) using bolus injections of 15N labelled amino acids. Amino Acids.
  • Ballantyne, J. S. and Frick, N. T. (2011). Lungfish metabolism. In: Lungfish Biology pp. 301-335. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
  • Ballantyne, J. S. and Robinson, J. W. (2011). Physiology of sharks, skates and rays. In: Encyclopedia of fish physiology: from genome to environment. Volume 3 (ed. Farrell, A. P.), pp. 1807-1818. San Diego: Academic Press.
  • Robinson, J. W. et al. (2011). Plasma free amino acid kinetics in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) using a bolus injection of 15N-labelled amino acids. Amino Acids 40, 689-696.
  • Ballantyne, J. S. and Robinson, J. W. (2010). Freshwater elasmobranchs: a review of their physiology and biochemistry. J. Comp. Physiol. 180B, 475-493.
  • Frick, N. T. et al. (2010). Cytochrome c oxidase is regulated by modulations in protein expression and mitochondrial membrane phospholipid composition in estivating African lungfish. Am. J. Physiol. 298, R608-R616.
  • Robinson, J. W. et al. (2010). The metabolic fate of intraperitoneally injected 15N ammonium chloride in a marine elasmobranch, Taeniura lymma. Physiol. Biochem. Zool.

Other Links

  • Huntsman Marine Science Centre