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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000010072.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010073.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010074.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE PIM |
| OFRAG00000010075.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE PIM |
| OFRAG00000010076.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 2 |
| OFRAG00000010077.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 2 |
| OFRAG00000010078.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 2 |
| OFRAG00000010079.1 | BIOGENESIS OF LYSOSOME-RELATED ORGANELLES COMPLEX 1 SUBUNIT 2 |
| OFRAG00000010080.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010081.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010082.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010083.1 | BETA1,4 MANNOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000010084.1 | MYOSIN VII, XV |
| OFRAG00000010085.1 | EXPRESSED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010086.1 | MYOSIN VII, XV |
| OFRAG00000010087.1 | DEVELOPMENTALLY-REGULATED GTP-BINDING PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000010088.1 | CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE ASSEMBLY PROTEIN COX11-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010089.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010090.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010091.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010092.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000010093.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000010094.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010095.1 | ABC TRANSPORTER G FAMILY MEMBER 28 |
| OFRAG00000010096.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010097.1 | BOLA TRANSCRIPTION REGULATOR |
| OFRAG00000010098.1 | CNH DOMAIN CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000010099.1 | YEAST SPT2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010100.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010101.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000010102.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010103.1 | PROLINE-SERINE-THREONINE PHOSPHATASE INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000010103.2 | PROLINE-SERINE-THREONINE PHOSPHATASE INTERACTING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000010104.1 | NUCLEAR MOVEMENT PROTEIN NUDC |
| OFRAG00000010105.1 | ARGININE DEMETHYLASE AND LYSYL-HYDROXYLASE JMJD |
| OFRAG00000010106.1 | GTP-BINDING PROTEIN HFLX |
| OFRAG00000010107.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010108.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010109.1 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010110.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010111.1 | PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010112.1 | VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR A DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 8 |
| OFRAG00000010113.1 | METHYLTRANSFERASE, FKBM FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010114.1 | METHYLTRANSFERASE, FKBM FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010115.1 | NME/NM23 FAMILY MEMBER 8 |
| OFRAG00000010116.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR SUI1 |
| OFRAG00000010117.1 | PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1 REGULATORY SUBUNIT SDS22-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010118.1 | PYRUVATE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000010119.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010120.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 103 |
