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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000008007.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008008.1 | G BETA-LIKE PROTEIN GBL |
| OFRAG00000008009.1 | UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYME E2 |
| OFRAG00000008009.2 | UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYME E2 |
| OFRAG00000008010.1 | ZINC/IRON TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000008011.1 | CRANIOFACIAL DEVELOPMENT PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000008012.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008013.1 | HEAT SHOCK FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000008014.1 | GLYCOLIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008015.1 | RAB-GAP/TBC-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008016.1 | TEL2 INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 TTI1 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000008017.1 | PLACENTAL PROTEIN 11-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008018.1 | GATOR COMPLEX PROTEIN WDR59 |
| OFRAG00000008018.2 | GATOR COMPLEX PROTEIN WDR59 |
| OFRAG00000008019.1 | PROTEIN/NUCLEIC ACID DEGLYCASE DJ-1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008020.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008021.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008022.1 | PAR-6-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008023.1 | BAT4 PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008024.1 | P53 AND DNA DAMAGE-REGULATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008025.1 | REPLICATION FACTOR C / DNA POLYMERASE III GAMMA-TAU SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000008026.1 | D-2-HYDROXYGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000008027.1 | PAIRED BOX PROTEIN PAX-6-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008028.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008029.1 | SOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000008030.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008031.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008032.1 | MANNOSE-P-DOLICHOL UTILIZATION DEFECT 1 LEC35 -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008033.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000008034.1 | NUCLEOPORIN P54 |
| OFRAG00000008034.2 | NUCLEOPORIN P54 |
| OFRAG00000008035.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER SUBFAMILY A ABCA |
| OFRAG00000008036.1 | SERINE INCORPORATOR |
| OFRAG00000008036.2 | SERINE INCORPORATOR |
| OFRAG00000008037.1 | NUCLEAR FACTOR NF-KAPPA-B PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008038.1 | CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE ASSEMBLY FACTOR 5 |
| OFRAG00000008039.1 | SHORT COILED COIL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008040.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008041.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008042.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008043.1 | DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE |
| OFRAG00000008044.1 | HISTIDINE TRIAD HIT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008045.1 | MISSHAPEN LIKE KINASE 1 |
| OFRAG00000008046.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000008047.1 | TRANSFERASE, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008048.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 5-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008049.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008050.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008051.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008052.1 | PROTEIN CBG17025 |
