Fig. 5.

Distribution of putative funneling pathway branches in the eLignin bibliome, inferred from reported substrates, sorted by phylum. Because of the overall linear nature of the aerobic funneling pathways (Fig. 3), it is possible to use the substrates reported in the literature for a given organism and correlate that to a funneling pathway branch (i.e., a collection of funneling pathways). The small group of species that has been reported to degrade aromatics anaerobically has all been clustered in the anaerobic branch in order not to generate false positives in the other branches. To distinguish the bacteria from the representatives of the other two kingdoms, the fungal phyla are presented with stripes and the only archaeal phylum is in solid black. A detailed outcome of the prediction for each species with links to the different references is found online at www.elignindatabase.com under each organism entry page. Please note that the results are theoretical and it is up to everyone to assess the probability of these inferences, e.g., by reading the primary references for each organism