Silk production from tarantula feet questioned

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7267, 2009, Pages

  Pérez Miles, Fernando ^a   Panzera, Alejandra ^a   Ortiz Villatoro, David ^a   Perdomo, Cintya ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHONOPELMA SEEMANNI; HINDLIMB; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERICULTURE; SPIDER;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; EXTREMITIES; HAIR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILK; SPIDERS;

TARANTULA;

EID: 70350509198     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08404     Document Type: Note

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