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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000000050.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000000051.1 | GH08155P |
| OFRAG00000000052.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000053.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000054.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000055.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000056.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000057.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000058.1 | PROTEIN CBG11839-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000059.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000060.1 | CAMP-REGULATED PHOSPHOPROTEIN 21 RELATED R3H DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000061.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000062.1 | CHROMATIN COMPLEXES SUBUNIT BAP18-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000063.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000064.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000065.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000066.1 | ADENYLATE CYCLASE TYPE 1 |
| OFRAG00000000067.1 | ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE |
| OFRAG00000000068.1 | SH3 DOMAIN-BINDING PROTEIN 5 |
| OFRAG00000000069.1 | ZINC FINGER AND SCAN DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000000070.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000071.1 | SODIUM/HYDROGEN EXCHANGER |
| OFRAG00000000072.1 | RHO-TYPE GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR, ISOFORM F |
| OFRAG00000000073.1 | GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000000074.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000075.1 | NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEIN NUP205 |
| OFRAG00000000076.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000077.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000078.1 | MYOSIN VII, XV |
| OFRAG00000000079.1 | MICROSOMAL SIGNAL PEPTIDASE 25 KDA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000000080.1 | INTRAFLAGELLAR TRANSPORT PROTEIN 81 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000000081.1 | JAK PATHWAY SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION ADAPTOR MOLECULE |
| OFRAG00000000082.1 | DEOXYCYTIDYLATE DEAMINASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000083.1 | PROTEIN DISPATCHED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000084.1 | LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR CLASS A DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000000085.1 | RNA-BINDING (RRM/RBD/RNP MOTIFS) FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000086.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000087.1 | POLYCYSTIN FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000000088.1 | POLYCYSTIN FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000000089.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000000090.1 | APICAL ENDOSOMAL GLYCOPROTEIN PRECURSOR. |
| OFRAG00000000091.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000000092.1 | PROTEIN CIP2A |
| OFRAG00000000093.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000094.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000095.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000096.1 | STG PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000097.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000098.1 | HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN HSP-12.2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000099.1 | BCL2-ASSOCIATED ATHANOGENE |
