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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000009301.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009302.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009303.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL TRANSFER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009303.2 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL TRANSFER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009303.3 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL TRANSFER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009304.1 | CADHERIN-LIKE AND PC-ESTERASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000009305.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009306.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009307.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009308.1 | WD40 REPEAT PROTEIN SWD2 |
| OFRAG00000009309.1 | ZINC FINGER CCHC DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 7 |
| OFRAG00000009309.2 | ZINC FINGER CCHC DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 7 |
| OFRAG00000009310.1 | VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT CALCIUM CHANNEL TYPE A SUBUNIT ALPHA-1 |
| OFRAG00000009311.1 | TENSIN |
| OFRAG00000009312.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009313.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009313.2 | |
| OFRAG00000009314.1 | GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL ANCHOR ATTACHMENT 1 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009315.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009316.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009317.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009318.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009319.1 | FLAP ENDONUCLEASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000009320.1 | TYROSINE-PROTEIN KINASE BAZ1B |
| OFRAG00000009321.1 | WW DOMAIN BINDING PROTEIN 2, ISOFORM E |
| OFRAG00000009322.1 | NG5 |
| OFRAG00000009323.1 | MEDIATOR OF RNA POLYMERASE II TRANSCRIPTION SUBUNIT 25 |
| OFRAG00000009324.1 | WNT RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009324.2 | WNT RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009325.1 | WNT RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009326.1 | UNC-13-4A, ISOFORM B |
| OFRAG00000009327.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009328.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009329.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000009330.1 | PLECKSTRIN HOMOLOGY DOMAIN-CONTAINING FAMILY G MEMBER 7 |
| OFRAG00000009331.1 | SMG-7 SUPPRESSOR WITH MORPHOLOGICAL EFFECT ON GENITALIA PROTEIN 7 |
| OFRAG00000009332.1 | CYTOCHROME B5 |
| OFRAG00000009333.1 | P25 ALPHA-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009334.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009335.1 | GMP SYNTHASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009336.1 | TUBULIN |
| OFRAG00000009337.1 | TUBULIN |
| OFRAG00000009338.1 | ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA MUTATED ATM -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009339.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009340.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009341.1 | ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA MUTATED ATM -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009342.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009343.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009344.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009345.1 |
