Role
PC2 Lab Manager
Education

1984 MSc University of Queensland

Current Research Activities
Management of PC2 Labs
Publications
A number of science and technical papers in international journals. The following are a selection of recent publications.

Underwood JN, Souter PB, Ballment E, Lutz AH and van Oppen MJH (2006) Development of 10 polymorphic microsatellite markers from herbicide-bleached tissues of the brooding pocilloporid coral Seriatopora hystrix. Molecular Ecology Notes 6: 176-178.

Benzie JAH, Ballment E, Forbes AT, Demetriades NT, Sugama K, Haryanti and Moria S (2002) Mitochondrial DNA variation in Indo-Pacific populations of the giant tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon. Molecular Ecology 11: 2553-2569.

Sugama K, Haryanti , Benzie JAH and Ballment E (2002) Genetic variation and population structure of the giant tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon, in Indonesia. Aquaculture 205:37-48.

Wilson KJ, Li Y, Whan V, Lehnert SA, Byrne K, Moore SS, Pongsomboon S, Tassanakajon A, Rosenberg G, Ballment E, Fayazi Z, Swan J, Kenway MJ and Benzie JAH (2002) Genetic mapping of the black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon with Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms. Aquaculture 204: 297-309.

Benzie JAH, Kenway MJ and Ballment E (2001) Growth of Penaeus monodon x Penaeus esculentus tiger prawn hybrids compared with their parental species. Aquaculture 193: 227-237.

Benzie JAH, Ballment E and Edyvane K (2000) Allozymes as genetic identification markers of Sargassum spp. (Phaeophyta) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Botanica Marina 43: 169-179.

Benzie JAH, Ballment E, Chisholm JRM and Jaubert JM (2000) Genetic variation in the green alga Caulerpa taxifolia (Chlorophyta) in Australia and the Mediterranean. Aquatic Botany 66: 131-139.

Wilson KJ, Li Y, Swan J, Ballment E, Fayazi Z, Byrne K, Whan V, Iglesis D, Lehnert SA, Pongsomboon S, Tassanakajon A, Kenway MJ, Benzie JAH and Moore SS (2000) International collaboration on genetic mapping of the black tiger shrimp, Penaeus monodon: progress update. p. 199. In: IMBC 2000. Townsville, Australia 29 September - 4 October 2000. Program & Abstracts.

Wilson KJ, Cahill V, Ballment E and Benzie JAH (2000) The complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome of the crustacean Penaeus monodon: are Malacostraca sister group to Insecta?. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17: 863-874.

Ballment ER, Smith TJ III, Stoddart JAS (1988) Sibling species in the mangrove genus, Ceriops Arn. (Rhizophoraceae), detected using biochemical genetics. Australian Systematic Botany 1: 391-397.

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