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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000009110.2 | CYTOKINE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000009111.1 | DNA REPAIR PROTEIN XRCC3 |
| OFRAG00000009112.1 | GPI-ANCHORED PROTEIN P137 |
| OFRAG00000009112.2 | GPI-ANCHORED PROTEIN P137 |
| OFRAG00000009113.1 | HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000009114.1 | B9 DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000009115.1 | LARGE SUBUNIT GTPASE 1 HOMOLOG-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009116.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009117.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009118.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009119.1 | 3'-5' EXONUCLEASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009120.1 | TORSIN |
| OFRAG00000009121.1 | RAB GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000009122.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000009122.2 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000009123.1 | CELL GROWTH REGULATOR WITH RING FINGER DOMAIN PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000009124.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 39-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009125.1 | DNA REPLICATION LICENSING FACTOR MCM FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000009126.1 | N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000009127.1 | PKSB |
| OFRAG00000009128.1 | LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009129.1 | PKSB |
| OFRAG00000009130.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009131.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009132.1 | ZINC FINGER AND SCAN DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000009133.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2B CATALYTIC SUBUNIT 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009133.2 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2B CATALYTIC SUBUNIT 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009134.1 | ATP-DEPENDENT PERMEASE MDL1, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000009135.1 | LD33695P |
| OFRAG00000009136.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009137.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009138.1 | CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES REGULATORY SUBUNIT/60S RIBOSOME SUBUNIT BIOGENESIS PROTEIN NIP7 |
| OFRAG00000009139.1 | RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA GTPASE REGULATOR-INTERACTING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009140.1 | RBR FAMILY RING FINGER AND IBR DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000009140.2 | RBR FAMILY RING FINGER AND IBR DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000009141.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000009142.1 | ANK_REP_REGION DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009143.1 | PROTEIN PITCHFORK |
| OFRAG00000009144.1 | RHO GDP-DISSOCIATION INHIBITOR |
| OFRAG00000009145.1 | EGF-LIKE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009146.1 | PROTEASE M1 ZINC METALLOPROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000009147.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000009148.1 | DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES I, II, AND III SUBUNIT RPABC3 |
| OFRAG00000009149.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009150.1 | PROTEIN CBG17025 |
| OFRAG00000009151.1 | SEC61 SUBUNIT BETA |
| OFRAG00000009152.1 | CTX-RELATED TYPE I TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009153.1 | PROTEIN-S ISOPRENYLCYSTEINE O-METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000009154.1 | MATING RESPONSE PROTEIN POI2 |
| OFRAG00000009155.1 | RAB GDP/GTP EXCHANGE FACTOR |
