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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000011330.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011331.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011332.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011333.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011334.1 | PROTEASOME SUBUNIT ALPHA/BETA |
| OFRAG00000011335.1 | BOLA-LIKE PROTEIN 3 |
| OFRAG00000011336.1 | 4.1 G PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011337.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011338.1 | NUCLEOTIDE-SUGAR TRANSMEMBRANE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000011339.1 | FMRFAMIDE RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011340.1 | CENTROMERE PROTEIN E |
| OFRAG00000011341.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011342.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011343.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011344.1 | ANTIGEN BSP, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011345.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011346.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011347.1 | SPONDIN |
| OFRAG00000011348.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011349.1 | UDP- GLUCOSE PYROPHOSPHORYLASE |
| OFRAG00000011350.1 | 60S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L12 |
| OFRAG00000011351.1 | DUAL SPECIFICITY MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 5-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011352.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011353.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011354.1 | RAB GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000011355.1 | TANDEM PH DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011356.1 | CCR4 NOT-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011357.1 | CENTROSOMAL PROTEIN OF 131 KDA |
| OFRAG00000011358.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011359.1 | BCL-2 RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011360.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011361.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011362.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE REGULATORY SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000011363.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN HOX |
| OFRAG00000011364.1 | APICAL ENDOSOMAL GLYCOPROTEIN PRECURSOR. |
| OFRAG00000011365.1 | LRRGT00142-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011366.1 | METALLO-BETA-LACTAMASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000011367.1 | KINESIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011368.1 | STAR-RELATED LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 9 |
| OFRAG00000011369.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011370.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000011371.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011372.1 | TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR IF-3 |
| OFRAG00000011373.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011374.1 | ORIGIN RECOGNITION COMPLEX SUBUNIT 5 |
| OFRAG00000011375.1 | PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR GPR1, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011376.1 | KINESIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011376.2 | KINESIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011377.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011378.1 | CELL CYCLE CONTROL PROTEIN CWF15 |
