$a_{ss}$	Average relationship between sister queens
BLUP	Best linear unbiased prediction
DPQ	Drone producing queen
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
ibd	Identical by descent
IIS	Instrumental insemination station
IIS2/IIS3/IISmix	IIS with two-year/three-year/mixed paternal generation interval
IMS	Isolated mating station
$N_{\mathrm{DPQ}}$	(=8) Number of drone producing queens per fertilization station
$N_{\mathrm{FertS}}$	(=5, 20, or 50) Number of fertilization stations per year
$N_Q$	(=500 or 1000) Number of breeding queens per year
$N_{s,\mathrm{eff}}$	Effective number of sires
$p_{\mathrm{pat},\mathrm{ibd}}$	Probability of paternally inherited alleles to be identical by descent
$r_{md}$	(=$-0.18$ or $-0.53$) Correlation between maternal and direct effects
${\sigma }_{A,m}^2$/${\sigma }_{A,d}^2$	(=1/=2) Maternal/direct genetic variance
${\sigma }_E^2$	(=4) Residual variance