fungal adhesive-column trap formation

Resolve a closer fungal trap-morphology parent.

CURATION TODO RESOLVED adhesive-column-scope-and-parent · raised by codex · 2026-10-08

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Phenotype METPO:1000059 is a broad parent. Existing mycelial growth traitmech:000074 explicitly concerns bacteria; hyphal anastomosis traitmech:000605 denotes fusion. Distinguish multicellular adhesive columns from unicellular knobs, interconnected net loops, nonconstricting rings and mechanically constricting rings. A generic hyphal branch, branched-shaped cell or nematophagous genus is not sufficient. Adhesive branch is not asserted as an exact synonym without resolving its usage boundaries. No exact synonyms, xrefs, SSSOM equivalences or organism-level disjointness are asserted. Neighboring scope exclusions are not unresolved exact groundings; their closer-parent questions remain open.

Resolution: Added fungal nematode-trap formation traitmech:000718 as the direct broader phenotype. The existing child definition entails specialized hyphal trap differentiation. This resolves only the parent gap; the historical scope contrasts, unasserted mappings, examples and separate mechanism questions remain applicable. Formation does not guarantee immediate capture. The column cell-count question is separately OPEN. Preserve the historical phenotype axiom and add METPO:1063400 SubClassOf METPO:1067100 on upstream adoption.

Resolve natural strain provenance and column-specific mechanisms.

KNOWLEDGE GAP OPEN adhesive-column-strains-and-mechanism · raised by codex · 2026-10-08

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Live NCBI https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=taxonomy&id=47266 resolves Dactylellina cionopaga at species rank, with Monacrosporium cionopagum and Dactylella cionopaga synonyms. It does not identify YMF1.01472 as a strain accession or establish its origin. The 2020 paper's cionopagum spelling and experimental strain must be reconciled before a canonical example is added; do not conflate strains across these papers. Formation, adhesion, capture, penetration and digestion are separate endpoints; formation alone does not guarantee capture in every condition. Protein-resolved causal graphs require column-specific perturbation/complementation evidence and taxon-paired accessions. Sequence features and expression correlations are not validated phenotype predictors. No mechanism is transferred from nets, knobs or rings; mechanism is deferred, not claimed absent.

Reconcile serial-cell column scope with the supplement's broader cell-count description.

CURATION TODO OPEN adhesive-column-cell-count-scope · raised by codex · 2026-10-13

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The current definition retains serially arranged cells, supported by Ji's Introduction. The newly inspected 2020 Transparent Methods, Fungal strains, PDF page 12, describes columns containing one or more cells. Preserve this source-level difference pending review of single-cell columns versus knobs; do not silently broaden the child or make cell number the sole discriminator. Both usages fit fungal nematode-trap formation, so this question does not reopen the resolved parent gap. The supplement names YMF1.00569 from Deqin soil, not the 2016 paper's YMF1.01472. That provenance does not establish identity between the strains or a canonical example. The earlier evidence notes record limited supplement access at initial curation; this follow-up adds the inspected page without claiming a complete supplement audit.

Evidence

• DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2020.101057