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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000006280.1 | RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L19 |
| OFRAG00000006281.1 | U7 SNRNA-ASSOCIATED SM-LIKE PROTEIN LSM11 |
| OFRAG00000006282.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006283.1 | UPF0573 PROTEIN C2ORF70 |
| OFRAG00000006283.2 | UPF0573 PROTEIN C2ORF70 |
| OFRAG00000006284.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006285.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006286.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006287.1 | CARBONIC ANHYDRASE |
| OFRAG00000006288.1 | CARBONIC ANHYDRASE |
| OFRAG00000006289.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006290.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006291.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006292.1 | CALCIUM AND INTEGRIN BINDING FAMILY MEMBER 2 |
| OFRAG00000006293.1 | VACUOLAR PROTEIN SORTING 28, ISOFORM 2 VPS28 |
| OFRAG00000006294.1 | GRB2-ASSOCIATED AND REGULATOR OF MAPK PROTEIN FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000006295.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006296.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006297.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006298.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006299.1 | PYRUVATE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000006300.1 | DNAJ HOMOLOG SUBFAMILY C MEMBER 21 |
| OFRAG00000006301.1 | RADIAL SPOKE HEAD 10 HOMOLOG B-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006302.1 | HISTONE DEACETYLASE-LIKE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006303.1 | PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR GPR1, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006304.1 | MAKORIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006305.1 | PAX TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATION DOMAIN INTERACTING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006306.1 | COMPLEMENT COMPONENT 1 |
| OFRAG00000006307.1 | SPLICING FACTOR 3B, SUBUNIT 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006308.1 | PHOSPHATASE, ORPHAN 1, 2 |
| OFRAG00000006309.1 | TRNA-DIHYDROURIDINE(47) SYNTHASE [NAD(P)(+)]-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000006310.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006311.1 | GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000006312.1 | PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE |
| OFRAG00000006313.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER SUBFAMILY A ABCA |
| OFRAG00000006314.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER SUBFAMILY A ABCA |
| OFRAG00000006315.1 | STANNIOCALCIN |
| OFRAG00000006316.1 | STANNIOCALCIN |
| OFRAG00000006317.1 | PROTEIN DISULFIDE ISOMERASE |
| OFRAG00000006318.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006319.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006320.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006321.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006322.1 | TYROSINE-PROTEIN KINASE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000006323.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000006324.1 | METAL DEPENDENT HYDROLASE - RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006325.1 | ALPHA- 1,3 -FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000006326.1 | ALPHA-(1,3)-FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006327.1 | CYSTEINYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000006328.1 | FIBROIN HEAVY CHAIN FIB-H LIKE PROTEIN |
