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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000005984.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000005985.1 | JANUS-A/JANUS-B |
| OFRAG00000005986.1 | SNRNA-ACTIVATING PROTEIN COMPLEX SUBUNIT 4 |
| OFRAG00000005987.1 | MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000005988.1 | FAM98 |
| OFRAG00000005989.1 | USP DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005990.1 | COMPLEMENT COMPONENT-RELATED SUSHI DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000005991.1 | SERYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000005992.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 4E RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005993.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005994.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 31 COPPER TRANSPORTERS |
| OFRAG00000005995.1 | |
| OFRAG00000005996.1 | LEUCINE RICH REPEAT FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000005997.1 | SERINE/THREONINE PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE |
| OFRAG00000005998.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 39 ZINC TRANSPORTER , MEMBER 9-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000005999.1 | ALPHA- 1,6 -FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000006000.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000006001.1 | ASAP FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000006002.1 | GAMMA TUBULIN COMPLEX PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006003.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006004.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006005.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006006.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006007.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006008.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006009.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 24 |
| OFRAG00000006010.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000006011.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 158-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006012.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006013.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006014.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006015.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006016.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 158-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006017.1 | SHIPPO-1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006018.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006019.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006020.1 | TBC1 DOMAIN FAMILY MEMBER GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006021.1 | URINARY PROTEIN RUP /ACROSOMAL PROTEIN SP-10 |
| OFRAG00000006022.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006023.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006024.1 | BCL-2 RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006025.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000006026.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006027.1 | ADAM10/ADAM17 METALLOPEPTIDASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000006028.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006029.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006030.1 | GUANYLYL CYCLASE |
| OFRAG00000006031.1 | HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE SUV39H |
| OFRAG00000006032.1 | UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYME E2 |
| OFRAG00000006033.1 | NADH-UBIQUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE B15 SUBUNIT |
