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What does monandrous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Having only one stamen in each flower.
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The black-tailed and white-tailed prairie dogs were mostly monandrous, but the Gunnison's and Utah prairie dogs were mostly polyandrous.
Analysis of the microsatellite markers showed that both queens and workers contributed to policing of worker and queen-laid eggs even in monogynous and monandrous colonies.
It is a predominantly monandrous species in which a reduced frequency of polyandry has proved to be modulated by both genetic and environmental or physiological factors.
All species studied are monandrous orchids, therefore the number of pollen presented in the Table 2 corresponds to the number of pollen grains per flower.
Longevity of monandrous females was not related to female body weight, nor was there any relationship between degree of polyandry and female body weight.
Polyandrous litters survived well in both solitary and communal nests, but monandrous ones survived significantly more in communal nests than in solitary ones.

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