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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000011091.1 | RECA/RAD51/RADA DNA STRAND-PAIRING FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000011092.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011092.2 | |
| OFRAG00000011093.1 | ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011094.1 | ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011095.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011096.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011097.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011098.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011099.1 | XANTHINE-URACIL / VITAMIN C PERMEASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000011100.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011101.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011102.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011103.1 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR CTCFL-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011104.1 | TEKTIN |
| OFRAG00000011105.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011106.1 | MANSC DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000011107.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011108.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011109.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011110.1 | GH3 DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011111.1 | COP9 SIGNALOSOME COMPLEX SUBUNIT 7/DENDRITIC CELL PROTEIN GA17 |
| OFRAG00000011112.1 | LEUCINE ZIPPER-EF-HAND CONTAINING TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011113.1 | MIXED LINEAGE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000011114.1 | BIFUNCTIONAL INHIBITOR/LIPID-TRANSFER PROTEIN/SEED STORAGE 2S ALBUMIN SUPERFAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011115.1 | PHD FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011116.1 | RNA EXONUCLEASE REXO1 / RECO3 FAMILY MEMBER-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011117.1 | VITELLOGENIN RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011118.1 | GDP-FUCOSE PROTEIN O-FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE 2 |
| OFRAG00000011119.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011120.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011120.2 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011121.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011122.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011123.1 | 50S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L4 |
| OFRAG00000011124.1 | CATION CHANNEL SPERM-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN SUBUNIT BETA |
| OFRAG00000011125.1 | ALKYLATED DNA REPAIR PROTEIN ALKB-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011126.1 | SARCOMA ANTIGEN NY-SAR-95-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011127.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011128.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011129.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011130.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN ORTHOPEDIA |
| OFRAG00000011131.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN ORTHOPEDIA |
| OFRAG00000011132.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011133.1 | COATOMER SUBUNIT DELTA |
| OFRAG00000011134.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011135.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011136.1 | RNA-BINDING MOTIF PROTEIN, X-LINKED 2 |
| OFRAG00000011137.1 | SIMILAR TO CHROMOSOME 3 OPEN READING FRAME 20 |
| OFRAG00000011138.1 | PROTEASE FAMILY M14 CARBOXYPEPTIDASE A,B |
