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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000007331.1 | SRCR DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007332.1 | SRCR DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007333.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007334.1 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000007335.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007336.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007337.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007338.1 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000007339.1 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000007340.1 | GEM-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 7 |
| OFRAG00000007341.1 | SELECTIN LIGAND RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007342.1 | P53-INDUCED PROTEIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007343.1 | FAS-BINDING FACTOR 1 |
| OFRAG00000007344.1 | CENTAURIN/ARF |
| OFRAG00000007345.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000007346.1 | DEOXYNUCLEOSIDE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000007347.1 | 26S PROTEASOME REGULATORY SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000007348.1 | RIBONUCLEASE P PROTEIN SUBUNIT P38 |
| OFRAG00000007349.1 | NCL1 YEAST -RELATED NOL1/NOP2/FMU SUN DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000007350.1 | ZINC FINGER MYND DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 12 |
| OFRAG00000007351.1 | UBIQUITIN LIGASE SPECIFICITY FACTOR/HREP PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007352.1 | CYSTEINE-RICH SECRETORY PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007353.1 | EF-HAND CALCIUM-BINDING DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 10 |
| OFRAG00000007354.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007355.1 | MAP/MICROTUBULE AFFINITY-REGULATING KINASE |
| OFRAG00000007356.1 | CARRIER DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007357.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007358.1 | BETA-1,3-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000007359.1 | BETA-1,3-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000007360.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007361.1 | SYNAPTIC VESICLE GLYCOPROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000007362.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007363.1 | INSULIN-INDUCED GENE 1 |
| OFRAG00000007363.2 | INSULIN-INDUCED GENE 1 |
| OFRAG00000007364.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007365.1 | MYB-LIKE PROTEIN V |
| OFRAG00000007366.1 | PDF RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007367.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007368.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 39 |
| OFRAG00000007369.1 | CARBONIC ANHYDRASE |
| OFRAG00000007370.1 | CHROMOSOME 28 C12ORF29 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000007371.1 | NUCLEAR RECEPTOR CO-REPRESSOR RELATED NCOR |
| OFRAG00000007371.2 | NUCLEAR RECEPTOR CO-REPRESSOR RELATED NCOR |
| OFRAG00000007372.1 | B9 DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000007373.1 | NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007374.1 | NUCLEAR TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, X-BOX BINDING 1 NFX1 |
| OFRAG00000007375.1 | SERINE/ARGININE REGULATED NUCLEAR MATRIX PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007375.2 | SERINE/ARGININE REGULATED NUCLEAR MATRIX PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007376.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007377.1 |
