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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000007571.1 | WD-REPEAT PROTEIN INTERACTING WITH PHOSPHOINOSIDES WIPI -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007572.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007573.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR TFIID |
| OFRAG00000007574.1 | CYSTEINE-RICH PROTEIN CRIP FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000007575.1 | 4-NITROPHENYLPHOSPHATASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007576.1 | DNAJ HOMOLOG SUBFAMILY C MEMBER 5 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000007576.2 | DNAJ HOMOLOG SUBFAMILY C MEMBER 5 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000007577.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED PROTEIN KIAA2013 |
| OFRAG00000007578.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007579.1 | HYCCIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007580.1 | UBIQUITIN CARBOXYL-TERMINAL HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000007580.2 | UBIQUITIN CARBOXYL-TERMINAL HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000007581.1 | NEGATIVE REGULATOR OF VESICLE FORMATION-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007582.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007583.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007584.1 | HIV-INDUCED PROTEIN-7-LIKE PROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000007585.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007586.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007586.2 | |
| OFRAG00000007587.1 | DIFFUSE PANBRONCHIOLITIS CRITICAL REGION GENE 1 |
| OFRAG00000007588.1 | GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007589.1 | ALKYLDIHYDROXYACETONEPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE, PEROXISOMAL |
| OFRAG00000007590.1 | PROTEASOME SUBUNIT ALPHA/BETA |
| OFRAG00000007591.1 | OVARIAN-SPECIFIC SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE LOK-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007592.1 | ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE ALPHA HYDROLASES-LIKE SUPERFAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007593.1 | TRAFFICKING PROTEIN PARTICLE COMPLEX SUBUNIT 6B |
| OFRAG00000007594.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007595.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007596.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000007597.1 | SIDESTEP PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007598.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007599.1 | FORKHEAD BOX PROTEIN BINIOU |
| OFRAG00000007600.1 | ADAPTIN, ALPHA/GAMMA/EPSILON |
| OFRAG00000007601.1 | WU:FJ29H11 |
| OFRAG00000007602.1 | COP9 SIGNALOSOME COMPLEX SUBUNIT 7/DENDRITIC CELL PROTEIN GA17 |
| OFRAG00000007603.1 | DYNAMIN |
| OFRAG00000007604.1 | ACIDIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR INTRACELLULAR BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007604.2 | ACIDIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR INTRACELLULAR BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007605.1 | XAA-PRO AMINOPEPTIDASE 1 |
| OFRAG00000007606.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007607.1 | XAA-PRO AMINOPEPTIDASE 1 |
| OFRAG00000007608.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007609.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007610.1 | DNA REPLICATION COMPLEX GINS PROTEIN PSF2 |
| OFRAG00000007611.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007612.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007613.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007614.1 | NETRIN/LAMININ-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007615.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007616.1 |
