Comparison of pooled semen insemination and single colony insemination as sustainable honeybee breeding strategies

Instrumental insemination of honeybees allows for two opposing breeding strategies. In single colony insemination (SCI), all drones to inseminate a queen are taken from one colony. In pooled semen insemination (PSI), sperm of many genetically diverse drones is mixed and queens are fertilised from the resulting drone pool. While SCI allows for maximum pedigree control, proponents of PSI claim to reduce inbreeding and maintain genetic variance. Using stochastic simulation studies, we compared genetic progress and inbreeding rates in small honeybee populations under SCI and PSI. Four different selection criteria were covered: estimated breeding values (EBV), phenotypes, true breeding values (TBV), and random selection. Under EBV-based truncation selection, SCI yielded 9.0% to 44.4% higher genetic gain than PSI, but had vastly increased inbreeding rates. Under phenotypical or TBV selection, the gap between SCI and PSI in terms of genetic progress narrowed. Throughout, PSI yielded lower inbr..., The zipped folder BeeSim_and_data.zip contains four elements.

The folder \"src\" witht the source code (written in C) for the version of the Program BeeSim that was used in the article. 
A makefile to compile the code
An R-script named \"par_files.r\" producing the parameter files that were used for the simulations of the article
A csv-file named \"results.csv\" containing the simulation results that were used to write the article.

An earlier version of BeeSim has previously been published on Dryad (DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1nh544n) along with extensive documentation on how to use the program. To run the code, the user will further have to install the third-party programs BLUPF90 (Link) and PInCo (Link).
The file \"results.csv\" contains a table with 11 colums. The first seven colums specify simulation settings while colums 8 to 11 contain simulation results. All simulation results are averaged over the 100 repetitions per setting.

The column \"birth.year\" refers to the age cohort. As 70 years were..., , # Comparison of pooled semen insemination and single colony insemination as sustainable honeybee

The dataset comprises the source code of the stochastic simulation program BeeSim that was used in the article. Along with the program comes an R-script that produces the necessary parameter files and a results file that contains the concrete simulation results presented in the article.

## Description of the data and file structure

The zipped folder **BeeSim_and_data.zip** contains four elements.

1. The folder **src** with the source code for the version of the Program BeeSim that was used in the article.
2. A **makefile** to compile the code
3. An R-script named **par_files.r** producing the parameter files that were used for the simulations of the article
4. A csv-file named **results.csv** containing the simulation results that were used to write the article.

### Description of the source code

The source code of the program is distributed over nine files that are contained in ...