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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000008149.1 | CYSTATHIONINE BETA-SYNTHASE |
| OFRAG00000008150.1 | CENTROSOMAL PROTEIN KIZUNA |
| OFRAG00000008151.1 | WD REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN 43 |
| OFRAG00000008152.1 | HEPARAN SULFATE 6-O-SULFOTRANSFERASE 3 |
| OFRAG00000008153.1 | TUBULIN EPSILON AND DELTA COMPLEX PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000008154.1 | NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEIN NUP155 |
| OFRAG00000008155.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008156.1 | FACIOGENITAL DYSPLASIA PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008157.1 | GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE 14 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000008158.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008159.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008160.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008161.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008162.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008163.1 | FIBRONECTIN TYPE-III DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008164.1 | OXYSTEROL-BINDING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008165.1 | SORTING NEXIN 17 AND 27 |
| OFRAG00000008166.1 | DNA REPLICATION LICENSING FACTOR MCM FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000008167.1 | PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR GPR1, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008168.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER SUBFAMILY A ABCA |
| OFRAG00000008169.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008170.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008171.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008172.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008173.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008174.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008175.1 | MANSC DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000008176.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000008177.1 | DISCOIDIN, CUB, EGF, LAMININ , AND ZINC METALLOPROTEASE DOMAIN CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000008178.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008179.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008180.1 | CHAPERONIN |
| OFRAG00000008181.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008182.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE DOA-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008183.1 | INNER MEMBRANE TRANSPORTER YGJI-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008184.1 | TRAFFICKING PROTEIN PARTICLE COMPLEX SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000008185.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008186.1 | SPHINGOSINE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000008187.1 | KDEL LYS-ASP-GLU-LEU CONTAINING - RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008188.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008189.1 | GOLGI MEMBRANE PROTEIN YIP1 |
| OFRAG00000008190.1 | GOLGI MEMBRANE PROTEIN YIP1 |
| OFRAG00000008191.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008192.1 | SYNAPTIC ADHESION-LIKE MOLECULE SALM |
| OFRAG00000008193.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008194.1 | 60S/50S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L6/L9 |
| OFRAG00000008195.1 | PROLINE-RICH EXTENSIN-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000008196.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008197.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008198.1 |
