Fig. 5. Plasmid persistence of ancestral plasmid pB10_Anc and truncated plasmid pB10_ev in three additional hosts.

Persistence was determined by plate counting after 8 days, showing that the plasmid deletion was only beneficial to persistence in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. (P = Pseudomonas). Boxes represent the median and the first and third quartiles, and the whiskers the lower and upper 1.5 interquartile range.