We show that, in particular experimental conditions, the time course of the radiant fluxes, measured from a bioluminescent emission of a Vibrio harveyi related strain, collapse after suitable rescaling onto the Gumbel distribution of extreme value theory. We argue that the activation times of the strain luminous emission follow the universal behavior described by this statistical law, in spite of the fact that no extremal process is known to occur. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.

Bacterial bioluminescence and Gumbel statistics: From quorum sensing to correlation

Velardi Luciano;
2013

Abstract

We show that, in particular experimental conditions, the time course of the radiant fluxes, measured from a bioluminescent emission of a Vibrio harveyi related strain, collapse after suitable rescaling onto the Gumbel distribution of extreme value theory. We argue that the activation times of the strain luminous emission follow the universal behavior described by this statistical law, in spite of the fact that no extremal process is known to occur. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
2013
Bacterial bioluminescence
quorum sensing
Gumbel statistics
Vibrio harveyi
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