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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000008296.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008297.1 | TRANSALDOLASE |
| OFRAG00000008298.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008299.1 | BAX INHIBITOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008300.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008301.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008302.1 | SLEI FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008303.1 | EGF-LIKE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008304.1 | NOTCH LIGAND FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000008305.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008306.1 | CALSYNTENIN |
| OFRAG00000008307.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008308.1 | SYNAPTIC ADHESION-LIKE MOLECULE SALM |
| OFRAG00000008308.2 | SYNAPTIC ADHESION-LIKE MOLECULE SALM |
| OFRAG00000008309.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008310.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008311.1 | PROTEASE-ASSOCIATED DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008312.1 | CONDENSIN |
| OFRAG00000008312.2 | CONDENSIN |
| OFRAG00000008313.1 | SULFOTRANSFERASE SULT |
| OFRAG00000008314.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008315.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000008316.1 | METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000008317.1 | BETA-1,3-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000008318.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008319.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008320.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008321.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008322.1 | SOWAH (DROSOPHILA) HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000008323.1 | E3 UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE UBR5 |
| OFRAG00000008324.1 | MANNOSYL-OLIGOSACCHARIDE ALPHA-1,2-MANNOSIDASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008324.2 | MANNOSYL-OLIGOSACCHARIDE ALPHA-1,2-MANNOSIDASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008325.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008326.1 | CYTOCHROME P450 508A4-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008327.1 | CYTOCHROME P450 508A4-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008328.1 | CYTOCHROME P450 508A4-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008329.1 | CYTOCHROME P450 FAMILY 1 |
| OFRAG00000008330.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008331.1 | ADENOSINE/GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATASE |
| OFRAG00000008332.1 | WD40 REPEAT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008333.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008334.1 | LYMPHOID-RESTRICTED MEMBRANE PROTEIN, JAW1 |
| OFRAG00000008335.1 | RIBONUCLEASE H2 SUBUNIT C |
| OFRAG00000008336.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008336.2 | |
| OFRAG00000008337.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008338.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008339.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008340.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008341.1 |
