Fig 3.

(a) Theory. Expected copy number for the two daughters over copy number of the mother (ESSS for the parameters stated in Table 1), see also the discussion of parameters in section “parameters and sensitivity analysis”. The dashed, horizontal line indicates the asymptotic copy number of the cell with fewer plasmids will receive if the mother’s copy number is very high. (b) Fluorescence data. Mother cells are ordered by increasing copy number (given by fluorescence, defining the rank of the mother). Fluorescence [AU] of the to daughters (open circle: higher fluorescence, bullets: smaller fluorescence) is drawn over the rank of the mother.