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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000009346.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009347.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009348.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009349.1 | DNA REPLICATION FACTOR CDT1 |
| OFRAG00000009350.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009351.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009352.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009353.1 | TUBULIN |
| OFRAG00000009354.1 | RETINOBLASTOMA-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN RB -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009355.1 | RETINOBLASTOMA-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN RB -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009356.1 | FUMARATE REDUCTASE |
| OFRAG00000009357.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000009358.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009359.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009360.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009361.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009362.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009363.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009364.1 | VACUOLAR PROTEIN SORTING-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN VPS13 |
| OFRAG00000009365.1 | VACUOLAR PROTEIN SORTING-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN VPS13 |
| OFRAG00000009366.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009367.1 | U3 SMALL NUCLEOLAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN PROTEIN IMP4 |
| OFRAG00000009368.1 | PROPERDIN |
| OFRAG00000009369.1 | PROPERDIN |
| OFRAG00000009370.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000009371.1 | S-METHYL-5'-THIOADENOSINE PHOSPHORYLASE |
| OFRAG00000009372.1 | CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT 5B, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000009373.1 | RIBONUCLEASES P/MRP PROTEIN SUBUNIT POP1 |
| OFRAG00000009374.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000009375.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 22 MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000009376.1 | METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000009377.1 | METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000009378.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009379.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009380.1 | FRINGE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009381.1 | THUMP DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009382.1 | FATTY ACID DESATURASE 2 |
| OFRAG00000009383.1 | CELL CYCLE CONTROL PROTEIN CWF25 |
| OFRAG00000009384.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009385.1 | CHONDROITIN SYNTHASE |
| OFRAG00000009386.1 | XPA-BINDING PROTEIN 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009387.1 | PROLINE OXIDASE |
| OFRAG00000009388.1 | NUCLEOTIDE-SUGAR TRANSMEMBRANE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000009389.1 | COILED-COIL-HELIX-COILED-COIL-HELIX DOMAIN CONTAINING 4 |
| OFRAG00000009390.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009391.1 | SODIUM/CHLORIDE DEPENDENT TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000009392.1 | SODIUM/CHLORIDE DEPENDENT TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000009393.1 | FMS INTERACTING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009394.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL PEPTIDE METHIONINE SULFOXIDE REDUCTASE |
| OFRAG00000009395.1 | TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASE |
