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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000005646.1 | ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN FAMILY |
| OFRAG00000005647.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005648.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE, SUB-FAMILY D MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000005649.1 | KINESIN-LIKE PROTEIN KIF11 |
| OFRAG00000005650.1 | EG:EG0003.4 PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005651.1 | ZINC FINGER FYVE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005652.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000005653.1 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LBX |
| OFRAG00000005654.1 | NUCLEAR HORMONE RECEPTOR HR3-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005655.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005656.1 | PCNA-ASSOCIATED FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000005657.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005658.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005659.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005660.1 | LUNG SEVEN TRANSMEMBRANE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000005661.1 | PROTEIN ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000005662.1 | SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE 19 KD PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005663.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005664.1 | EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX GLYCOPROTEIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005665.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005666.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005667.1 | CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL ALPHA CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000005668.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005669.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005670.1 | NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000005671.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000005672.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005673.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005674.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005675.1 | DDB1- AND CUL4-ASSOCIATED FACTOR 12-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005676.1 | MEVALONATE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000005677.1 | BETA-1,4-GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000005678.1 | REPLICATION FACTOR A 1, RFA1 |
| OFRAG00000005679.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL 39S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L51 |
| OFRAG00000005680.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005681.1 | CS DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005682.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005683.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN WITH METALLOPHOSPHOESTERASE DOMAIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005684.1 | TTC17 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005685.1 | DIHYDROOROTATE DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE), MITOCHONDRIAL-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005686.1 | LUPUS LA PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005687.1 | OPTIC ATROPHY 3 PROTEIN OPA3 |
| OFRAG00000005688.1 | SARCOSINE DEHYDROGENASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005689.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005690.1 | ARGININE DEMETHYLASE AND LYSYL-HYDROXYLASE JMJD |
| OFRAG00000005691.1 | MALE FERTILITY FACTOR KL5 |
| OFRAG00000005692.1 | LUPUS LA PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005692.2 | LUPUS LA PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005693.1 | PHOSPHORYLATED CTD INTERACTING FACTOR 1 |
| OFRAG00000005694.1 | METHYLTRANSFERASE TYPE 11 |
