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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000006378.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006379.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006380.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE PLK |
| OFRAG00000006381.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006382.1 | RHOMBOID-RELATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006383.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006384.1 | RING FINGER AND KH DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000006385.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006386.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006387.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006388.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006389.1 | FRUCTOSE-2,6-BISPHOSPHATASE TIGAR |
| OFRAG00000006390.1 | FORKHEAD BOX PROTEIN J2 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000006391.1 | AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000006392.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006393.1 | VOLTAGE-GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000006394.1 | PSEUDOURIDYLATE SYNTHASE |
| OFRAG00000006395.1 | NAD KINASE |
| OFRAG00000006395.2 | NAD KINASE |
| OFRAG00000006396.1 | ANK_REP_REGION DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006397.1 | RNA-BINDING (RRM/RBD/RNP MOTIFS) FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006397.2 | RNA-BINDING (RRM/RBD/RNP MOTIFS) FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006398.1 | ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000006399.1 | HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000006400.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006401.1 | ACROSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006402.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE GTPASE FZO1 |
| OFRAG00000006402.2 | TRANSMEMBRANE GTPASE FZO1 |
| OFRAG00000006403.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 40 MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000006404.1 | NADH-UBIQUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE B22 SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000006405.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 4B/4H |
| OFRAG00000006406.1 | CYSTEINE DESULFURYLASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000006407.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 35 |
| OFRAG00000006408.1 | FORMIN HOMOLOGY 2 DOMAIN CONTAINING, ISOFORM I |
| OFRAG00000006408.2 | FORMIN HOMOLOGY 2 DOMAIN CONTAINING, ISOFORM I |
| OFRAG00000006409.1 | VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR C AND EGF DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006410.1 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000006410.2 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000006411.1 | GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000006412.1 | SEGMENT POLARITY PROTEIN DISHEVELLED |
| OFRAG00000006412.2 | SEGMENT POLARITY PROTEIN DISHEVELLED |
| OFRAG00000006413.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 208 |
| OFRAG00000006414.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006415.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 3 SUBUNIT 11 |
| OFRAG00000006416.1 | ABC1 FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006417.1 | SAM DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006418.1 | EGL NINE HOMOLOG-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006419.1 | EGL NINE HOMOLOG-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006420.1 | PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE SUBTILISIN/KEXIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006421.1 |
