Observation of super-Poisson statistics of bacterial (Photobacterium phosphoreum) bioluminescence during the early stage of cell proliferation

We studied the process of the analysis of photon statistics for extraction of physiological information from chemiluminescence accompanying biological phenomena implicated in metabolic processes. A super-Poisson behavior in the early stages of cell proliferation of marine luminescent bacteria was observed by characterization of Fano factor of detected photoelectron time series. It is suspected that there is clustering of photon emission at the elementary luminescence process generated by the activation of luminescent enzymes.