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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000008342.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008343.1 | ATP-DEPENDENT RNA HELICASE RHLE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008344.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008345.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008346.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008347.1 | MITOFILIN |
| OFRAG00000008348.1 | MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN 1, 3 |
| OFRAG00000008349.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL 28S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S22 |
| OFRAG00000008350.1 | ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000008351.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008352.1 | ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000008353.1 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR |
| OFRAG00000008354.1 | NUCLEAR HORMONE RECEPTOR HR3-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008355.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008356.1 | PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE |
| OFRAG00000008357.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008358.1 | DNA EXCISION REPAIR PROTEIN ERCC-8 |
| OFRAG00000008359.1 | STRUCTURE-SPECIFIC ENDONUCLEASE SUBUNIT SLX1 |
| OFRAG00000008360.1 | CILIA- AND FLAGELLA-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 99 |
| OFRAG00000008361.1 | NUP107-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008361.2 | NUP107-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008362.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008363.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008364.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008365.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008366.1 | BRISC AND BRCA1-A COMPLEX MEMBER 2 |
| OFRAG00000008367.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008368.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008369.1 | GLIOMA SUPPRESSOR CANDIDATE REGION GENE 2 |
| OFRAG00000008370.1 | N-ALPHA-ACETYLTRANSFERASE 40 |
| OFRAG00000008371.1 | STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000008372.1 | ER MEMBRANE PROTEIN COMPLEX SUBUNIT 4 |
| OFRAG00000008373.1 | HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008374.1 | E3 UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE NHLRC1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008374.2 | TRIPARTITE MOTIF-CONTAINING PROTEIN 2-LIKE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008375.1 | LEUCINE RICH REPEAT FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008376.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008377.1 | LONG-CHAIN-FATTY-ACID--COA LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000008378.1 | RIBONUCLEASE P_MRP PROTEIN SUBUNIT POP5 |
| OFRAG00000008379.1 | DYNAMIN |
| OFRAG00000008379.2 | DYNAMIN |
| OFRAG00000008379.3 | DYNAMIN |
| OFRAG00000008379.4 | DYNAMIN |
| OFRAG00000008380.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008381.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008382.1 | MEDIUM-CHAIN SPECIFIC ACYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE, MITOCHONDRIAL-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008383.1 | XENOTROPIC AND POLYTROPIC RETROVIRUS RECEPTOR 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008384.1 | ACYL-COA-BINDING DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 6 |
| OFRAG00000008385.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008386.1 |
