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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000008584.1 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR COE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000008585.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008586.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008587.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008588.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008589.1 | 28S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S26, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000008589.2 | 28S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S26, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000008590.1 | NARDILYSIN |
| OFRAG00000008591.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008592.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008593.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000008594.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008595.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008596.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008597.1 | TYROSINE-PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000008598.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE EMP24 DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008599.1 | ZINC FINGER, CCHC DOMAIN CONTAINING 8 |
| OFRAG00000008600.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 17 |
| OFRAG00000008601.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008601.2 | |
| OFRAG00000008602.1 | PROTEIN PBDC1 |
| OFRAG00000008603.1 | REPLICATION FACTOR C / DNA POLYMERASE III GAMMA-TAU SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000008604.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008605.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008606.1 | MEDIATOR OF RNA POLYMERASE II TRANSCRIPTION SUBUNIT 24 |
| OFRAG00000008606.2 | MEDIATOR OF RNA POLYMERASE II TRANSCRIPTION SUBUNIT 24 |
| OFRAG00000008606.3 | MEDIATOR OF RNA POLYMERASE II TRANSCRIPTION SUBUNIT 24 |
| OFRAG00000008607.1 | GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE 14 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000008608.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008609.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008610.1 | S-ANTIGEN PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008611.1 | DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE |
| OFRAG00000008612.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008613.1 | NADP-SPECIFIC ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000008614.1 | MRNA-CAPPING ENZYME |
| OFRAG00000008615.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008616.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008617.1 | RAD54-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000008618.1 | ALPHA-GALACTOSIDASE/ALPHA-N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINIDASE |
| OFRAG00000008619.1 | SOLUBLE LIVER ANTIGEN/LIVER PANCREAS ANTIGEN |
| OFRAG00000008620.1 | |
| OFRAG00000008621.1 | CYTOSOLIC CARBOXYPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000008622.1 | DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE I SUBUNIT 2 |
| OFRAG00000008623.1 | OVARIAN-SPECIFIC SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE LOK-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008624.1 | OVARIAN-SPECIFIC SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE LOK-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008625.1 | RIBOPHORIN II |
| OFRAG00000008626.1 | SURVIVAL OF MOTOR NEURON-RELATED-SPLICING FACTOR 30-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000008627.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000008628.1 | MYOTROPHIN |
| OFRAG00000008629.1 | GUANYLYL CYCLASE |
