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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000008535.1 | IMPORTIN BETA |
| OFRAG00000008536.1 | ADP-RIBOSYLATION FACTOR-LIKE PROTEIN 13B |
| OFRAG00000008537.1 | ADP-RIBOSYLATION FACTOR-LIKE PROTEIN 13B |
| OFRAG00000008538.1 | CENTROSOMAL PROTEIN POC5 |
| OFRAG00000008539.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000008540.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008541.1 | ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000008542.1 | CARNITINE O-ACYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000008543.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008544.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000008545.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000008546.1 | HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS HMG-A AND C |
| OFRAG00000008547.1 | RNA POLYMERASE III TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR COMPLEX SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000008548.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008549.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008550.1 | MANNOSE, PHOSPHOLIPASE, LECTIN RECEPTOR RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008551.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008552.1 | NICASTRIN |
| OFRAG00000008553.1 | RING FINGER AND PROTEASE ASSOCIATED DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000008554.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 3 -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008555.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008556.1 | NOTCH LIGAND FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000008557.1 | NICASTRIN |
| OFRAG00000008558.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008559.1 | MEMBRANE-ASSOCIATED PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR COMPONENT-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008560.1 | BETA-1,4-GLUCURONYLTRANSFERASE 1 |
| OFRAG00000008561.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008562.1 | RING BOX |
| OFRAG00000008563.1 | HSC70CB, ISOFORM G-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008563.2 | HSC70CB, ISOFORM G-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008564.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008565.1 | MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000008566.1 | UDP-GLUCOSE DEHYDROGENASE/UDP-MANNAC DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000008567.1 | NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000008568.1 | PYRIDOXAL KINASE |
| OFRAG00000008569.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008570.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008571.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008572.1 | MITOCHONDRIA-EATING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008573.1 | MULTIPLE PDZ DOMAIN PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008574.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008575.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008576.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008577.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000008578.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008579.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000008580.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000008581.1 | MULTIPLE PDZ DOMAIN PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008582.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008583.1 | TERPENE CYCLASE/MUTASE FAMILY MEMBER |
