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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000000919.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000920.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000921.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000922.1 | CYCLIN |
| OFRAG00000000923.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000924.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED PUTATIVE METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000000925.1 | HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1 ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000000926.1 | WITH PUTATIVE URIDYL PYROPHOSPHORYLASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000927.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000928.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000929.1 | NF-KAPPA-B INHIBITOR ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000000930.1 | MYB-LIKE PROTEIN V |
| OFRAG00000000931.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000932.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR TFIID SUBUNIT 4 |
| OFRAG00000000933.1 | SCD6 PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000934.1 | AFADIN- AND ALPHA-ACTININ-BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000935.1 | REPETIN |
| OFRAG00000000936.1 | MATRIN 3/NUCLEAR PROTEIN 220-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000937.1 | ENOLASE |
| OFRAG00000000938.1 | PROTEIN CBG20488 |
| OFRAG00000000939.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000940.1 | SENTRIN-SPECIFIC PROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000000941.1 | NUCLEAR RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR 5-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000942.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000943.1 | PALMITOYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000000944.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000000945.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000946.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000000947.1 | F-BOX ONLY PROTEIN 15 |
| OFRAG00000000948.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000949.1 | GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000000950.1 | GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000000951.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000952.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000953.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000000954.1 | UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYME E2 |
| OFRAG00000000955.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000956.1 | EXPRESSED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000957.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000958.1 | PROTEASE FAMILY M14 CARBOXYPEPTIDASE A,B |
| OFRAG00000000959.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000960.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000961.1 | MOTILE SPERM DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000000962.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000000963.1 | TRIFUNCTIONAL PURINE BIOSYNTHETIC PROTEIN ADENOSINE-3-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000964.1 | NEGATIVE ELONGATION FACTOR D |
| OFRAG00000000965.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000966.1 | PROTEASE FAMILY C26 GAMMA-GLUTAMYL HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000000967.1 | PROTEASE FAMILY C26 GAMMA-GLUTAMYL HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000000968.1 |
