Fig 2.

(a) ESSS for the parameters stated in Table 1 (see also the discussion of parameters in section “parameters and sensitivity analysis”). (b) Population density over copy number for this segregation strategy. (c)-(h) Experimental segregation characteristics: We stratify the mother cells according the number of plasmids (fluorescence). The histograms of the fraction of plasmids a daughter inherits is presented (if f_i are the fluorescence of the two daughter cells, we show the histogram of f₁/(f₁ + f₂), f₂/(f₁ + f₂). Note that we have thus always symmetry w.r.t. 1/2).