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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000010171.1 | EXPORTED SERINE/THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000010172.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010173.1 | EXPORTED SERINE/THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000010174.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010175.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010176.1 | ATPASE INHIBITOR/5-FORMYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE CYCLO-LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000010177.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000010178.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010179.1 | GABA-B RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000010180.1 | ACYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000010181.1 | JITTERBUG, ISOFORM N |
| OFRAG00000010182.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010183.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010184.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010185.1 | SH3 DOMAIN-BINDING PROTEIN 5 |
| OFRAG00000010186.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010187.1 | NITRILASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010188.1 | GAMMA-BUTYROBETAINE HYDROXYLASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010189.1 | BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, HES-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010190.1 | ADAPTOR PROTEIN, PHOSPHOTYROSINE INTERACTION, PH DOMAIN AND LEUCINE ZIPPER-CONTAINING 2 |
| OFRAG00000010191.1 | 26S PROTESOME SUBUNIT 6 |
| OFRAG00000010192.1 | ARP2/3 COMPLEX 34 KDA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000010193.1 | LEUCINE RICH REPEAT FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010194.1 | P140CAP/SNIP-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010195.1 | HISTIDINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010196.1 | HISTIDINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010197.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010198.1 | MANNOSE, PHOSPHOLIPASE, LECTIN RECEPTOR RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010199.1 | ARGINYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000010200.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010201.1 | HYDROXYLAMINE REDUCTASE |
| OFRAG00000010202.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010203.1 | VESICLE-TRAFFICKING PROTEIN SEC22B |
| OFRAG00000010204.1 | CALCIUM BINDING PROTEINS |
| OFRAG00000010205.1 | CAMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE REGULATORY CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000010206.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000010207.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010208.1 | ALDOSE-1-EPIMERASE |
| OFRAG00000010208.2 | ALDOSE-1-EPIMERASE |
| OFRAG00000010209.1 | SYNTAXIN |
| OFRAG00000010210.1 | METHIONINE SYNTHASE |
| OFRAG00000010211.1 | PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR GPR1, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010212.1 | EQUILIBRATIVE NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000010213.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010214.1 | LEUCINE RICH REPEAT FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010215.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010216.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010217.1 | EXPRESSED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010218.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010219.1 |
