Fig 5. Correlations between overall chimeric success and non-social life history traits.

Each one of the 31 winning genotypes obtained in Fig 2B is mixed in pairs with the rest of the genotypes and the fraction of spores is counted following a growth phase and the subsequent starvation onset. The chimeric success is obtained as the mean value of this fraction of spores averaged over all the possible pair mixes as defined in Eq (5) of the main text. From left to right: chimeric success versus division rate (A, E, I), aggregator to non-aggregator ratio (B, F, J), average number of aggregators (C, G, K) and average number of non-aggregators (D, H, L). From top to bottom: low cell:resource initial density (10³ cells and R₀ = 10⁸), intermediate cell:resource initial density (10⁷ cells and R₀ = 10⁸) and high cell:resource initial density (10¹⁰ cells and R₀ = 10⁸).