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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000009490.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009491.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009492.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009493.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009494.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009495.1 | RNA PROCESSING PROTEIN LD23810P |
| OFRAG00000009496.1 | CELL DIVISION CYCLE AND APOPTOSIS REGULATOR PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009497.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009498.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009499.1 | INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR-ASSOCIATED KINASE 1-BINDING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000009500.1 | CENTROMERE PROTEIN E |
| OFRAG00000009501.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009502.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009503.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009504.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009505.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009506.1 | CENTROMERE PROTEIN E |
| OFRAG00000009507.1 | SAP18 |
| OFRAG00000009508.1 | UPF0240 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009509.1 | CARBON CATABOLITE REPRESSOR PROTEIN 4 |
| OFRAG00000009510.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009511.1 | EARLY GAMETOCYTE ENRICHED PHOSPHOPROTEIN EGXP |
| OFRAG00000009512.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN WITH KRAB AND SCAN DOMAINS |
| OFRAG00000009513.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009514.1 | ANTIGEN BSP, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009515.1 | ANTIGEN BSP, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009516.1 | SPLICING FACTOR SF3A-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009517.1 | BLOC-1-RELATED COMPLEX SUBUNIT 5 |
| OFRAG00000009518.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009519.1 | BLOC-1-RELATED COMPLEX SUBUNIT 5 |
| OFRAG00000009520.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009521.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009522.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S31 |
| OFRAG00000009523.1 | CDK-ACTIVATING KINASE ASSEMBLY FACTOR MAT1 |
| OFRAG00000009524.1 | ARMADILLO-TYPE FOLD-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009525.1 | USP DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009526.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009526.2 | |
| OFRAG00000009527.1 | HMG-BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BBX |
| OFRAG00000009528.1 | PECANEX |
| OFRAG00000009529.1 | SERINE-THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000009530.1 | DOUBLE ZINC RIBBON AND ANKYRIN REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000009531.1 | SCY1-RELATED S/T PROTEIN KINASE-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000009532.1 | SURFEIT LOCUS PROTEIN 6 |
| OFRAG00000009533.1 | PORCUPINE |
| OFRAG00000009534.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009535.1 | SYMPLEKIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009536.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009537.1 | BETA-1,3-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000009538.1 | 1-ACYLGLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE-RELATED |
