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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000000874.1 | SLEI FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000875.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000000876.1 | 30S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S13/40S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S18 |
| OFRAG00000000877.1 | PNAS-3 RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000878.1 | GDP-FUCOSE PROTEIN O-FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE 1 |
| OFRAG00000000879.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000880.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 102A |
| OFRAG00000000881.1 | CITRATE LYASE SUBUNIT BETA-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000882.1 | EPITHELIAL CELL-TRANSFORMING SEQUENCE 2 ONCOGENE-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000000883.1 | CYTOCHROME P450 FAMILY 46 SUBFAMILY A |
| OFRAG00000000884.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000885.1 | UPF0722 PROTEIN C11ORF88 |
| OFRAG00000000886.1 | RIKEN CDNA 2310061I04 GENE |
| OFRAG00000000887.1 | PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE ZDHHC16 |
| OFRAG00000000888.1 | BETA-ALANINE-ACTIVATING ENZYME |
| OFRAG00000000889.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000890.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000891.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000892.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000893.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000894.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000895.1 | PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR GPR1, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000896.1 | DEFECTIVE SPERMATOGENESIS PROTEIN 39 |
| OFRAG00000000897.1 | LP07818P1 |
| OFRAG00000000898.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000899.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000900.1 | NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000000901.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000902.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000903.1 | OXIDATIVE STRESS-RESPONSE SERINE-RICH PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000000904.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000905.1 | E3 UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE TRIM36-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000905.2 | E3 UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE TRIM36-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000906.1 | MRNA EXPORT FACTOR AND BUB3 |
| OFRAG00000000907.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000908.1 | 1-ACYLGLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000909.1 | RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASE |
| OFRAG00000000910.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000911.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 13 MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000000911.2 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 13 MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000000911.3 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 13 MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000000911.4 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 13 MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000000912.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000913.1 | RNA POLYMERASE II-ASSOCIATED FACTOR 1 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000000914.1 | IROQUOIS-CLASS HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN IRX |
| OFRAG00000000915.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000916.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000917.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000917.2 | CMF/LEK/CENP CELL DIVISION-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000918.1 | WINS1, 2 PROTEIN |
