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Replying to: F. Pérez-Miles, A. Panzera, D. Ortiz-Villatoro & C. Perdomo Nature 461, 10.1038/nature08404 (2009)

The data presented by Pérez-Miles et al.1 call into question the production of tarantula tarsal silk2, but there remains substantive evidence that would seem to contradict their assertion that tarsal silk is solely due to abdominal silk entangled on to hind legs.

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Figure 1: Leg traces of Aphonopelma seemanni (light microscopy).

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  1. * Zoological Institute of the University of Kiel, Am Botanischen Garten 1–9, D-24098 Kiel, Germany. sgorb@zoologie.uni-kiel.de ,

    Stanislav N. Gorb

  2. Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Jena, Jena, Germany

    Senta Niederegger

  3. University of California, Riverside, 92521, California, USA

    Cheryl Y. Hayashi

  4. Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, Washington 98250, USA

    Adam P. Summers

  5. Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, 71076 Tübingen, Germany

    Walter Vötsch

  6. Electron Microscopy Department, University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany

    Paul Walther

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