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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000006852.1 | METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000006853.1 | E3 UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE HAKAI-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006854.1 | XK-RELATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006855.1 | MRG-BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006856.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000006857.1 | RNA RECOGNITION MOTIF RRM DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006858.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006859.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006860.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006861.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006862.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000006863.1 | CARTILAGE INTERMEDIATE LAYER PROTEIN CLIP |
| OFRAG00000006864.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN C9ORF91 |
| OFRAG00000006864.2 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN C9ORF91 |
| OFRAG00000006865.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006866.1 | HISTIDINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006867.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006868.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006869.1 | BARDET-BIEDL SYNDROME 2 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006870.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006871.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL 2-OXODICARBOXYLATE CARRIER 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006872.1 | EXPORTED SERINE/THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000006873.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006874.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006875.1 | S-ANTIGEN PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006876.1 | SPORE COAT PROTEIN SP85 |
| OFRAG00000006877.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000006878.1 | CYSTEINE-RICH, ACIDIC INTEGRAL MEMBRANE PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006879.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006880.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006881.1 | CADHERIN DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006882.1 | WD REPEAT PROTEIN 26-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006883.1 | RHO FAMILY GTPASE |
| OFRAG00000006884.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 598 |
| OFRAG00000006885.1 | V-TYPE PROTON ATPASE SUBUNIT C |
| OFRAG00000006886.1 | PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1 REGULATORY SUBUNIT SDS22-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006887.1 | ADP RIBOSYLATION FACTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006888.1 | SINGLE-STRANDED DNA-BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006889.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000006890.1 | XRP2 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006891.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT AND BTB/POZ DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000006892.1 | OXYSTEROL-BINDING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006892.2 | OXYSTEROL-BINDING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006893.1 | EXPORTIN 4,7-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006894.1 | EXPORTIN 4,7-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006895.1 | DYNEIN LIGHT INTERMEDIATE CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000006896.1 | CORTACTIN AND DREBRIN |
| OFRAG00000006897.1 | MALATE DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000006898.1 | CYTOCHROME P450 508A4-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000006899.1 |
