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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000001018.1 | ODD-SKIPPED - RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001019.1 | HISTONE DEACETYLASE COMPLEX SUBUNIT SAP130 |
| OFRAG00000001019.2 | HISTONE DEACETYLASE COMPLEX SUBUNIT SAP130 |
| OFRAG00000001020.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000001021.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001022.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001023.1 | FMRFAMIDE RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001024.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001025.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001026.1 | POTASSIUM CHANNEL, SUBFAMILY K |
| OFRAG00000001027.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001028.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000001029.1 | SODIUM/CHLORIDE DEPENDENT TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000001030.1 | FUN14 DOMAIN CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000001031.1 | RING FINGER PROTEIN 17 |
| OFRAG00000001032.1 | CHLORIDE CHANNEL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001033.1 | CHLORIDE CHANNEL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001034.1 | SPLICING FACTOR YJU2 |
| OFRAG00000001035.1 | BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX PROTEIN NEUROGENIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001036.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001037.1 | AMILORIDE-SENSITIVE SODIUM CHANNEL-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001038.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001039.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001040.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001041.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001042.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001043.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001044.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001045.1 | RAN GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000001046.1 | SODIUM-COUPLED MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000001047.1 | SODIUM-COUPLED MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000001048.1 | ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME |
| OFRAG00000001049.1 | HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1 ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000001050.1 | BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, TWIST |
| OFRAG00000001051.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000001052.1 | PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR GPR1, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001053.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001054.1 | TBP-1 INTERACTING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001055.1 | CENTROSOMAL PROTEIN OF 170 KDA |
| OFRAG00000001056.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000001057.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001058.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001059.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001060.1 | UBIQUITIN CARBOXYL-TERMINAL HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000001061.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001062.1 | CYTOCHROME B5 |
| OFRAG00000001063.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001064.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001065.1 | SODIUM-DEPENDENT GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1 |
| OFRAG00000001066.1 | WD REPEAT DOMAIN 60 |
