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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000010268.1 | PNAS-3 RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010269.1 | NUCLEAR FACTOR I |
| OFRAG00000010269.2 | NUCLEAR FACTOR I |
| OFRAG00000010270.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010271.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010272.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 14, 15 |
| OFRAG00000010273.1 | NUCLEAR INHIBITOR OF PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE-1 |
| OFRAG00000010274.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010275.1 | PENTATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 3 |
| OFRAG00000010276.1 | INNEXIN |
| OFRAG00000010277.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010278.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010279.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000010280.1 | ATPASE INHIBITOR/5-FORMYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE CYCLO-LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000010281.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010282.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010283.1 | EXPORTED SERINE/THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000010284.1 | ATPASE INHIBITOR/5-FORMYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE CYCLO-LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000010285.1 | TRNA (GUANINE-9-) METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000010286.1 | PEPTIDYL-PROLYL CIS-TRANS ISOMERASE |
| OFRAG00000010287.1 | PEPTIDYL-PROLYL CIS-TRANS ISOMERASE |
| OFRAG00000010288.1 | GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000010289.1 | MULTIPLE COAGULATION FACTOR DEFICIENCY PROTEIN 2 NEURAL STEM CELL DERIVED NEURONAL SURVIVAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010290.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010291.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010292.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000010293.1 | MEDIATOR COMPLEX SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000010294.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010295.1 | TUMOR SUPPRESSOR CANDIDATE 2 |
| OFRAG00000010296.1 | PRA1 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010297.1 | NUCLEAR RESPIRATORY FACTOR 1 |
| OFRAG00000010297.2 | NUCLEAR RESPIRATORY FACTOR 1 |
| OFRAG00000010298.1 | DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE II, III |
| OFRAG00000010299.1 | JNK1/MAPK8-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000010300.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000010301.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010302.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010303.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010304.1 | UBIQUITIN-ACTIVATING ENZYME E1 |
| OFRAG00000010305.1 | NECTIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010306.1 | PLEXIN |
| OFRAG00000010307.1 | GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000010308.1 | MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000010309.1 | MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000010310.1 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010311.1 | COILED-COIL-HELIX-COILED-COIL-HELIX DOMAIN CONTAINING 6 |
| OFRAG00000010312.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010313.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010314.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010315.1 |
