Separate Mankai compartment associations and MAG potential from demonstrated interactions #1956

Finding

CommunityMech:000360 labels compartment differences NICHE_PARTITIONING and predicted cobamide compatibility CROSS_FEEDING. Retain observed compartment profiles and genome-inferred potential, with explicit computational provenance, not demonstrated transfer or selectively tested host filtering. Endosphere is an operational fraction. Culture-collection comparators are not strain-matched endophytes; their cobalamin production does not validate guild exchange or adaptive gene loss. Preserve participants from #840 and METAGENOMICS from #839.

Source And Review Scope

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-026-00917-4

All four whole canonical records, fresh abstracts and primary main-body methods/results/discussion were inspected. Five-species publisher text was available through web retrieval despite a separate direct-HTTP403 receipt. No original figure-pixel, external supplement, raw-data or analysis-code audit. Expanded all-state search covered1188issues; six matching prior issue bodies and the five-species prior review report were read. Hidden/ignored local paths included, with credential files excluded. This is not a historical PR-comment audit.

Lifecycle

Address in batch123; close only after protected-main merge. Source-based self-adversarial review is not independent approval.