Extended Data Fig. 8: The functional stability ϕ increases with the plasmid transfer rate even when different species express the genes at different levels.
From: Horizontal gene transfer enables programmable gene stability in synthetic microbiota
xij (0 ≤ xij ≤ 1) describes the relative expression level of each copy of the j-th plasmid in the i-th species. The numerical simulations were performed following the same protocols as described in Extended Data Fig. 4c and Methods of the main text. Four different ranges of xij were considered, corresponding to different magnitudes of heterogeneity of gene expression levels. The x-axis is divided into multiple bins with widths of 0.005. Error bars represent mean +/− standard deviation of the ϕ values in each bin (n = 400 independent data points).
