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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000007378.1 | CELL DIVISION CYCLE 5-LIKE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007379.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007380.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007381.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR IIE, ALPHA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000007382.1 | GLYCOPROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007383.1 | DRAB5-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007384.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000007385.1 | DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE SUBUNIT K |
| OFRAG00000007386.1 | PEST PROTEOLYTIC SIGNAL-CONTAINING NUCLEAR PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007387.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS |
| OFRAG00000007388.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007389.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007390.1 | ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL TRANSFER PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007391.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000007392.1 | URIDINE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000007393.1 | HUNTINGTIN INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000007394.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007395.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000007396.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007397.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007398.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007399.1 | CD59 GLYCOPROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007400.1 | EGF-LIKE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007401.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007402.1 | SUN-COR STEROID HORMONE RECEPTOR CO-REPRESSOR |
| OFRAG00000007402.2 | SUN-COR STEROID HORMONE RECEPTOR CO-REPRESSOR |
| OFRAG00000007403.1 | TRNA PSEUDOURIDINE SYNTHASE D |
| OFRAG00000007404.1 | ATP SYNTHASE GAMMA-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007404.2 | ATP SYNTHASE GAMMA-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007404.3 | ATP SYNTHASE GAMMA-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007405.1 | PROTEASE M3 THIMET OLIGOPEPTIDASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007406.1 | PROTEIN ARGININE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000007407.1 | AAA-FAMILY ATPASE |
| OFRAG00000007408.1 | BETA-1,4-GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000007409.1 | REGULATOR COMPLEX PROTEIN LAMTOR3 |
| OFRAG00000007410.1 | F-BOX ONLY PROTEIN 47 |
| OFRAG00000007411.1 | ODD-SKIPPED - RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007412.1 | ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000007413.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007414.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007415.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007416.1 | RNA-BINDING (RRM/RBD/RNP MOTIFS) FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007417.1 | KICSTOR COMPLEX PROTEIN KAPTIN |
| OFRAG00000007418.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007419.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007420.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007421.1 | CASPASE |
| OFRAG00000007422.1 | ZINC FINGER SWIM DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 4, 5, 6 |
| OFRAG00000007423.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007424.1 |
