Osedax frankpressi is a species of bathypelagic polychaete worm that lives on the seabed. It is found on the carcase of a gray whale in Monterey Canyon, off the coast of California, at a depth of 2,891 m. And it is a small worm that speedily colonises the skeleton, sending out root-like threads that force their way into the bone marrow and absorb the nutrients.[5] Inside these root structures are bacteria in the order Oceanospirillales with which the worm is in symbiosis. It is probable that the presence of these bacteria, with their ability to metabolise organic material, enables the worms to live on carcases.
| Species | Phylum | Common Name | Ecosystem | Depth | Habitat | NCBI Taxonomy ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osedax frankpressi | Annelida | deep-sea annelid worms | Hydrothermal vent | 1018 or 2,891 | coasts of California and Mexico | 283776 |
| Genome Assembly | Genome Size | Assembly level | Released year | WGS accession | Submitter | BioProject | BUSCO completeness | Gene Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 285Mb | Scaffold | 2023 | - | HARVARD UNIVERSITY | PRJNA283630 | 80.10% | 14,203 |
| Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
|---|---|---|
| Distinct genomic routes underlie transitions to specialised symbiotic lifestyles in deep-sea annelid worms | nature communications | 37198188 |
| Gene ID | Description |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000005014.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005015.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005016.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000005017.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005018.1 | C2 DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005018.2 | C2 DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005019.1 | ASPARTYL/LYSYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000005019.2 | ASPARTYL/LYSYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000005020.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000005021.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005022.1 | SYNTENIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005023.1 | TRANSLATION ELONGATION FACTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005024.1 | 3-HYDROXY-3-METHYLGLUTARYL-COENZYME A REDUCTASE |
| OFRAG00000005025.1 | ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME |
| OFRAG00000005026.1 | PROTEIN KINASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005027.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005028.1 | APOLIPOPROTEIN B |
| OFRAG00000005029.1 | APOLIPOPROTEIN B |
| OFRAG00000005030.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005031.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005031.2 | |
| OFRAG00000005032.1 | PROTEIN KINASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005033.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005034.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005035.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005036.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005037.1 | PROTEIN CBG17025 |
| OFRAG00000005038.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000005039.1 | PHOSPHOHEXOMUTASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000005040.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005041.1 | ATP-DEPENDENT CLP PROTEASE PROTEOLYTIC SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000005042.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005043.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000005044.1 | MAINTENANCE OF KILLER 16 MAK16 PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005045.1 | POLY(U)-BINDING-SPLICING FACTOR PUF60-B-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005045.2 | POLY(U)-BINDING-SPLICING FACTOR PUF60-B-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005046.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005047.1 | ACYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000005048.1 | BECLIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000005049.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005050.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005051.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 2C |
| OFRAG00000005052.1 | FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005053.1 | FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005054.1 | FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005055.1 | FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005056.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005057.1 | CHROMOSOME 19 C19ORF81 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000005058.1 | CENTROSOMAL PROTEIN OF 128 KDA |
| OFRAG00000005059.1 | HL01030P-RELATED |
