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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000007617.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007618.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007619.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007620.1 | HISTIDINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007621.1 | 3-KETOACYL-COA THIOLASE, PEROXISOMAL |
| OFRAG00000007622.1 | RIIA DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000007623.1 | DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE TATDN2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007624.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000007625.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN ARISTALESS |
| OFRAG00000007626.1 | KINESIN-LIKE PROTEIN KIF11 |
| OFRAG00000007626.2 | KINESIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007627.1 | PEPTIDYL-TRNA HYDROLASE 2 |
| OFRAG00000007628.1 | SAD1/UNC-84-LIKE PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007629.1 | SAD1/UNC-84-LIKE PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007630.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000007631.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007632.1 | VALYL-TRNA SYNTHETASES |
| OFRAG00000007633.1 | 30S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S12 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000007634.1 | DIMETHYLADENOSINE TRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000007635.1 | PROTEIN MIS12 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000007636.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007637.1 | LIM DOMAIN ONLY PROTEIN 7 |
| OFRAG00000007638.1 | MEDIATOR OF RNA POLYMERASE II TRANSCRIPTION SUBUNIT 4 |
| OFRAG00000007639.1 | PROTEIN-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE METTL10 |
| OFRAG00000007640.1 | TETHER CONTAINING UBX DOMAIN FOR GLUT4 |
| OFRAG00000007641.1 | FIBROIN HEAVY CHAIN FIB-H LIKE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000007642.1 | PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR GPR1, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007643.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007643.2 | |
| OFRAG00000007644.1 | HVA22-LIKE PROTEINS |
| OFRAG00000007645.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000007646.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007647.1 | CHLORIDE CHANNEL CLIC-LIKE PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000007648.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007649.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007650.1 | GUANYLYL CYCLASE |
| OFRAG00000007651.1 | PHOSPHATE-BINDING PROTEIN PSTS |
| OFRAG00000007652.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007653.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007654.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007655.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007656.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007657.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007658.1 | N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYL-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL DE-N-ACETYLASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000007659.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000007660.1 | HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000007661.1 | SODIUM-BILE ACID COTRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000007662.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007663.1 | |
| OFRAG00000007664.1 | PROLINE-SERINE-THREONINE PHOSPHATASE INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 |
