Table 1.

List of parameters, with their dimensions, the value used in the main text, ranges explored in Supporting Information Section 1, and the effect on evolutionary outcome

Parameter	Definition	Dimensions	Main text value (SI range)	Bistability when
$\lambda$	Replication rate	Time−1	1 (0.5, 2)	High
$\gamma$	Death rate	Volume cells−1 time−1	1 (0.5, 2)	Low
$A$	Antibiotic‐associated death rate	Time−1	1 (0, 2)	Low
$c_R$	Cost of antibiotic resistance	Dimensionless	0.05 (0, 0.5)	High
$c_P$	Cost of plasmid carriage	Dimensionless	0.075 (0, 0.5)	Low
$\beta$	Plasmid transmission rate	Volume cells−1 time−1	0.2 (0, 0.25)	High
$s$	Segregation loss	Dimensionless	0.005 (0, 0.1)	Low

Note: More specifically, the fifth column indicates whether the region of bistability (where resistance can be either plasmid‐borne or chromosomal) occurs at high or low parameter values compared to the region where only chromosomal resistance is evolutionarily stable (see Supporting Information Section 1). The parameter units are arbitrary. The main text values are chosen to best illustrate the range of evolutionary stable outcomes.