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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000011139.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011140.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011141.1 | CARBONIC ANHYDRASE |
| OFRAG00000011142.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011143.1 | CRUMBS FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000011144.1 | FUCOSE-1-PHOSPHATE GUANYLYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000011145.1 | SERINE/THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000011145.2 | SERINE/THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000011145.3 | SERINE/THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000011146.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011147.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 2C |
| OFRAG00000011148.1 | N-ACETYLATED-ALPHA-LINKED ACIDIC DIPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000011149.1 | NEURAL PROLIFERATION DIFFERENTIATION AND CONTROL PROTEIN-1 NPDC-1 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011149.2 | NEURAL PROLIFERATION DIFFERENTIATION AND CONTROL PROTEIN-1 NPDC-1 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011150.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 39 |
| OFRAG00000011151.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011152.1 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011153.1 | ANK_REP_REGION DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011154.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011155.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011156.1 | SIMILAR TO 1700123O20RIK PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011157.1 | ADENYLOSUCCINATE SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000011158.1 | PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1 REGULATORY SUBUNIT 12 |
| OFRAG00000011159.1 | RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L7AE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000011160.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011161.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011162.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011163.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011164.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011165.1 | BEIGE/BEACH-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011166.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011167.1 | PHOSPHOLIPASE D - RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011168.1 | TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT PROTEIN, TPR |
| OFRAG00000011169.1 | PROTEIN STPG4 |
| OFRAG00000011170.1 | TRNA SELENOCYSTEINE 1-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011171.1 | TSEC-2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011172.1 | ZINC FINGER DHHC DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011173.1 | YEATS DOMAIN |
| OFRAG00000011174.1 | CASEIN KINASE II SUBUNIT BETA |
| OFRAG00000011175.1 | PEPTIDYL-PROLYL CIS-TRANS ISOMERASE |
| OFRAG00000011176.1 | ZINC FINGER HIT DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 2 PROTEIN FON -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011177.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011178.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 3 SUBUNIT G |
| OFRAG00000011179.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011180.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011181.1 | TETRASPANIN |
| OFRAG00000011181.2 | TETRASPANIN |
| OFRAG00000011182.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011183.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011184.1 | FORKHEAD BOX PROTEIN |
