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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000000728.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000729.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 17 |
| OFRAG00000000730.1 | RWD DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000731.1 | PAXILLIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000732.1 | D-ALANYL-D-ALANINE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000000733.1 | SERINE INCORPORATOR |
| OFRAG00000000734.1 | ADAMTS A DISINTEGRIN AND METALLOPROTEASE WITH THROMBOSPONDIN MOTIFS PROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000000735.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000736.1 | MISEXPRESSION SUPPRESSOR OF RAS 6 |
| OFRAG00000000737.1 | E3 UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE MARCH 2/3 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000000738.1 | TFIIF-ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000000739.1 | UBIQUINOL-CYTOCHROME C REDUCTASE COMPLEX 7.8 KDA PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000740.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL DIVISION PROTEIN 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000741.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000742.1 | BETA TRANSDUCIN-RELATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000743.1 | NUCLEAR TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, X-BOX BINDING 1 NFX1 |
| OFRAG00000000744.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000745.1 | SCC1 / RAD21 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000000746.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000747.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000748.1 | CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE ASSEMBLY FACTOR 3, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000000749.1 | PROTEASE FAMILY M24 METHIONYL AMINOPEPTIDASE, AMINOPEPTIDASE P |
| OFRAG00000000750.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000751.1 | PROTEIN DISULFIDE-ISOMERASE TMX3 |
| OFRAG00000000752.1 | HOOK PROTEINS |
| OFRAG00000000753.1 | COPPER TRANSPORT PROTEIN ATOX1 |
| OFRAG00000000754.1 | PROTEIN DISULFIDE-ISOMERASE C17H9.14C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000755.1 | GLYCOSYL TRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000000756.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000756.2 | |
| OFRAG00000000757.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000758.1 | PROTON CHANNEL OTOP |
| OFRAG00000000759.1 | AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000000760.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000761.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000762.1 | B2 BRADYKININ RECEPTOR/ANGIOTENSIN II RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000000763.1 | VACUOLAR ATPASE ASSEMBLY INTEGRAL MEMBRANE PROTEIN VMA21 |
| OFRAG00000000764.1 | LEUCINE RICH REPEAT FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000765.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000766.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000767.1 | NEDD4-BINDING PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000000768.1 | ANDROGEN INDUCED INHIBITOR OF PROLIFERATION AS3 / PDS5-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000769.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000770.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000771.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000772.1 | ANDROGEN INDUCED INHIBITOR OF PROLIFERATION AS3 / PDS5-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000773.1 | SPERMATOGENESIS-ASSOCIATED 4-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000774.1 | PROTEIN SON |
| OFRAG00000000774.2 | PROTEIN SON |
| OFRAG00000000775.1 | N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
