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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000009926.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000009927.1 | PCDC2 PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH PROTEIN 2 -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009928.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009929.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL DIVISION PROTEIN 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009930.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009931.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009932.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000009933.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000009934.1 | C-TYPE LECTIN DOMAIN FAMILY 20 MEMBER A-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009935.1 | NOP SEVEN ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000009936.1 | SEL-1-LIKE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009937.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000009938.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000009939.1 | RNA RECOGNITION MOTIF RRM DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009940.1 | RNA RECOGNITION MOTIF RRM DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009941.1 | DEAD/H BOX POLYPEPTIDE 26/DICE1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009942.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009943.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009944.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009945.1 | PHOSPHOLIPASE D |
| OFRAG00000009946.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009946.2 | |
| OFRAG00000009947.1 | TUBULIN-SPECIFIC CHAPERONE A |
| OFRAG00000009948.1 | ADAPTOR COMPLEX SUBUNIT BETA FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000009949.1 | INACTIVE RHOMBOID PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009950.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009951.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009952.1 | INACTIVE RHOMBOID PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009953.1 | EXOCYST COMPLEX COMPONENT 4 |
| OFRAG00000009954.1 | KERATINOCYTE PROLINE-RICH PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009955.1 | MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN 1/PARACASPASE |
| OFRAG00000009956.1 | ABHYDROLASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000009957.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009958.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009959.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009960.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009961.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009962.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009963.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009964.1 | LIN52 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000009965.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL-GLYCAN BIOSYNTHESIS CLASS F PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009966.1 | BROMODOMAIN ADJACENT TO ZINC FINGER DOMAIN PROTEIN 1A |
| OFRAG00000009967.1 | BECLIN 1-ASSOCIATED AUTOPHAGY-RELATED KEY REGULATOR |
| OFRAG00000009968.1 | DISCS LARGE |
| OFRAG00000009969.1 | GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000009970.1 | ANTIGEN BSP, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009971.1 | NEPHROCYSTIN |
| OFRAG00000009972.1 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000009973.1 | |
| OFRAG00000009974.1 | FMRFAMIDE RECEPTOR-RELATED |
