Neil F. Hadley

Professor of Biology
Ph.D. University of Colorado

E-mail: hadleyn@uncwil.edu

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My research interests focus on the adaptations (physiological, behavioral, morphological, biochemical) of animals to their environment, with a specific interest in the thermal, water and metabolic relations of arthropods living in hot, dry deserts. Research conducted within this broader area includes (1) comparative studies of cuticular permeability and the water barrier created by cuticular lipids, (2) correlations between the molecular composition of cuticular lipids and their barrier effectiveness, (3) ultrastructural examination of the cuticle with reference to the location of epicuticular lipids, (4) discontinuous ventilation and its effect in reducing respiratory transpiration, (5) evaporative cooling in insects, and (6) flight energetics and transpiration.

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