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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000005400.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005401.1 | STROMAL CELL-DERIVED FACTOR 2-LIKE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005402.1 | UBIQUITIN-LIKE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005403.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005404.1 | WD REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN 55 |
| OFRAG00000005405.1 | RECEPTOR-TYPE TYROSINE-PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE |
| OFRAG00000005406.1 | V-TYPE PROTON ATPASE SUBUNIT H |
| OFRAG00000005407.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORTER 1-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005408.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005409.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005410.1 | NADH-UBIQUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE MLRQ SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000005411.1 | NADH-UBIQUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE MLRQ SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000005412.1 | NADH-UBIQUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE MLRQ SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000005413.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005414.1 | VOLTAGE-GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000005415.1 | PYRUVOYL TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN SYNTHASE |
| OFRAG00000005416.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005417.1 | TRICHOPLEIN KERATIN FILAMENT-BINDING PROTEIN FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000005418.1 | TSEC1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005419.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005420.1 | DNA MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN MUTS FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000005421.1 | POS9-ACTIVATING FACTOR FAP7-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005422.1 | RNA-BINDING PROTEIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005422.2 | RNA-BINDING PROTEIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005423.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000005424.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000005425.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005426.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005427.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005428.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005429.1 | PRESEQUENCE PROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000005430.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000005431.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005432.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005433.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005434.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005435.1 | PEPTIDYL-PROLYL CIS-TRANS ISOMERASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005436.1 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL ADAPTOR 2 ADA2 -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005437.1 | AAA DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000005438.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005439.1 | HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005440.1 | HOMER |
| OFRAG00000005441.1 | UBIQUITIN CARBOXYL-TERMINAL HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000005442.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005443.1 | BRCA1-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005444.1 | WD-40 REPEAT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005444.2 | WD-40 REPEAT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005445.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005446.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005447.1 |
