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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000006997.1 | |
| OFRAG00000006998.1 | HISTIDINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000006999.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007000.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007001.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007002.1 | ASPARTYL/LYSYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000007003.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000007004.1 | TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR B POLYPEPTIDE 2 |
| OFRAG00000007005.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007006.1 | TPR REPEAT CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007007.1 | CENTROSOMAL PROTEIN OF 44 KDA |
| OFRAG00000007008.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007009.1 | WD-REPEAT PROTEIN BING4 |
| OFRAG00000007010.1 | RADICAL SAM PROTEINS |
| OFRAG00000007011.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007012.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007013.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007014.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007015.1 | GH28348P |
| OFRAG00000007016.1 | TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT PROTEIN 4 |
| OFRAG00000007017.1 | DIMETHYLADENOSINE TRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000007018.1 | SREK1IP1 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000007019.1 | PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM TRANSPORT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007020.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007021.1 | POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007022.1 | PROTEIN CBG17025 |
| OFRAG00000007023.1 | SODIUM/POTASSIUM/CALCIUM EXCHANGER |
| OFRAG00000007024.1 | WD40 REPEAT PF20 |
| OFRAG00000007025.1 | RIBONUCLEASE P SUBUNIT P30 |
| OFRAG00000007026.1 | TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR 2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007027.1 | TIMELESS INTERACTING-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007028.1 | PHOSPHOHEXOMUTASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000007029.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007030.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007031.1 | RETINOIC ACID-INDUCED PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000007032.1 | IRON-SULFUR CLUSTER CO-CHAPERONE PROTEIN HSCB |
| OFRAG00000007033.1 | SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN F SNRNP-F |
| OFRAG00000007034.1 | YTH YT521-B HOMOLOGY DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000007035.1 | GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE STELLO1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007036.1 | PROTEASOME ASSEMBLY CHAPERONE 3 |
| OFRAG00000007037.1 | DYNACTIN 1-RELATED MICROTUBULE-BINDING |
| OFRAG00000007038.1 | LYSOSOMAL ACID LIPASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007039.1 | TB1 PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007040.1 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000007041.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007042.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007043.1 | IRON-SULFUR CLUSTER ASSEMBLY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007044.1 | METHYLTRANSFERASE N6AMT1 |
| OFRAG00000007044.2 | METHYLTRANSFERASE N6AMT1 |
| OFRAG00000007045.1 | HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1 ALPHA |
