Fig. 1
From: Simulation studies to optimize genomic selection in honey bees
Population structure of a honey bee population under controlled mating. The parent generation consists of phenotyped colonies headed by fertilized queens (highlighted in beige). Each fertilized queen mates with several drones and produces a worker group. Dams of breeding queens (BQ) and drone producing queens (DPQ) are selected from the phenotyped colonies. With genomic selection, a larger number of queens is reared per dam, and the daughters with the highest genomic estimated breeding value are kept. No preselection among queens is applied in the pedigree-based breeding scheme. Sister DPQ are deployed together on a mating station and form a pseudo-father (highlighted in yellow). BQ are brought to mating stations to mate drones. This enables the fertilized BQ to produce a worker group and the colony is later phenotyped