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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000010993.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010994.1 | FMRFAMIDE RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000010995.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010996.1 | |
| OFRAG00000010997.1 | T-CELL IMMUNOMODULATORY PROTEIN HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000010998.1 | ZGC:174356 |
| OFRAG00000010999.1 | DDB1- AND CUL4-ASSOCIATED FACTOR 12-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011000.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011001.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011002.1 | FMRFAMIDE RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011003.1 | DEATH DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN CRADD |
| OFRAG00000011004.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000011005.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011006.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011007.1 | T CELL-SPECIFIC ADAPTER PROTEIN TSAD |
| OFRAG00000011008.1 | NEUROLIGIN |
| OFRAG00000011009.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011010.1 | LEUCYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000011011.1 | ADAM A DISINTEGRIN AND METALLOPROTEASE DOMAIN |
| OFRAG00000011012.1 | PHOSPHORYN, PUTATIVE-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011013.1 | POTASSIUM VOLTAGE-GATED CHANNEL SUBFAMILY KQT MEMBER 4 |
| OFRAG00000011014.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011015.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011016.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000011017.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000011018.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000011019.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000011020.1 | MACROGLOBULIN / COMPLEMENT |
| OFRAG00000011021.1 | MACROGLOBULIN / COMPLEMENT |
| OFRAG00000011022.1 | MACROGLOBULIN / COMPLEMENT |
| OFRAG00000011023.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE DECARBOXYLASE |
| OFRAG00000011023.2 | PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE DECARBOXYLASE |
| OFRAG00000011024.1 | NICOTINAMIDE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000011025.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011026.1 | HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000011027.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011028.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011029.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011030.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011031.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011032.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011033.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011034.1 | OMEGA-6 FATTY ACID DESATURASE, CHLOROPLASTIC |
| OFRAG00000011035.1 | PRE-MRNA-SPLICING FACTOR ISY1 |
| OFRAG00000011036.1 | GRIP-1 ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000011037.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011038.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011039.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011040.1 | ALANINE--GLYOXYLATE AMINOTRANSFERASE 2, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000011041.1 | CHECKPOINT SUPPRESSOR 1-LIKE, ISOFORM A-RELATED |
