Social calls are subject to stabilizing selection in insular bats
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Laboratorio di Ecologia Applicata, Dipartimento Ar.Bo.Pa.Ve., Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Portici (Napoli), Italy, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, Department of Biology, University of Madeira, Campus da Penteada, Funchal, Portugal, Forestry and Conservation, Via Botticelli, Cassino (Frosinone), Italy and Faculty of Sciences, Centre for Environmental Biology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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تاریخ انتشار 2009