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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000011042.1 | DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE |
| OFRAG00000011043.1 | ANAMORSIN |
| OFRAG00000011044.1 | RECA/RAD51/RADA DNA STRAND-PAIRING FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000011045.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011046.1 | CELL DIVISION CYCLE 16,23,27 |
| OFRAG00000011047.1 | RNA BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011048.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 3 SUBUNIT E |
| OFRAG00000011049.1 | MAJOR FACILITATOR SUPERFAMILY DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 10 |
| OFRAG00000011050.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011051.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011052.1 | PIEZO-TYPE MECHANOSENSITIVE ION CHANNEL HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000011053.1 | HILLARIN |
| OFRAG00000011054.1 | AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000011055.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011056.1 | MSF1/PX19 RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011057.1 | DNA POLYMERASE I |
| OFRAG00000011058.1 | LYSOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011059.1 | M-PHASE INDUCER PHOSPHATASE DUAL SPECIFICITY PHOSPHATASE CDC25 |
| OFRAG00000011060.1 | PROTEIN PATCHED |
| OFRAG00000011061.1 | SJOEGREN SYNDROME NUCLEAR AUTOANTIGEN 1 |
| OFRAG00000011062.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011063.1 | PEPTIDYL-GLYCINE ALPHA-AMIDATING MONOOXYGENASE |
| OFRAG00000011064.1 | SELENIDE, WATER DIKINASE |
| OFRAG00000011065.1 | MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY S/T KINASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011065.2 | MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY S/T KINASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011066.1 | CITRATE SYNTHASE |
| OFRAG00000011067.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011068.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011069.1 | NUDIX T16 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000011070.1 | ADHESION G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000011071.1 | NOTCH LIGAND FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000011072.1 | CADHERIN-23 |
| OFRAG00000011073.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011074.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011075.1 | EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX GLYCOPROTEIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011076.1 | PROTEIN CBG17025 |
| OFRAG00000011077.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011078.1 | SAM DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011079.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 2 |
| OFRAG00000011080.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 2 |
| OFRAG00000011081.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 2 |
| OFRAG00000011082.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011083.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011084.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011085.1 | PHENYLALANYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000011086.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011087.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011088.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011089.1 | GLUTARYL-COA DEHYDROGENASE, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000011090.1 | PA-PL1 PHOSPHOLIPASE FAMILY |
