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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000011425.1 | RUNT RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011426.1 | HEAT SHOCK REGULATED 2 |
| OFRAG00000011427.1 | RAB FAMILY |
| OFRAG00000011428.1 | GUANYLYL CYCLASE |
| OFRAG00000011429.1 | KICSTOR COMPLEX PROTEIN SZT2 |
| OFRAG00000011430.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER SUBFAMILY A ABCA |
| OFRAG00000011431.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011432.1 | CAP BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011433.1 | SPERMATOGENESIS-ASSOCIATED SERINE-RICH PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000011434.1 | YY1 ASSOCIATED PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011435.1 | RIIA DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000011436.1 | PHOSPHATASE AND ACTIN REGULATOR PHACTR |
| OFRAG00000011437.1 | GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIH SUBUNIT 5 |
| OFRAG00000011438.1 | TBC1 DOMAIN FAMILY MEMBER GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011439.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011440.1 | PROTEIN TAG-278-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011441.1 | EXOSOME COMPLEX EXONUCLEASE RIBOSOMAL RNA PROCESSING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011442.1 | 39S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L32, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000011443.1 | UBIQUITIN-ACTIVATING ENZYME E1 |
| OFRAG00000011444.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011445.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011446.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011447.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011448.1 | EXOSTOSIN HEPARAN SULFATE GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011449.1 | EXOSTOSIN HEPARAN SULFATE GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011450.1 | UNC-93 RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011451.1 | S-ANTIGEN PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011452.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011453.1 | METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000011454.1 | METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000011455.1 | METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000011456.1 | OROTATE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000011457.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011458.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011459.1 | CCAAT/ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011460.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011461.1 | PROTEASE FAMILY S26 MITOCHONDRIAL INNER MEMBRANE PROTEASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011462.1 | ZINC FINGER-CONTAINING PROTEIN P48ZNF |
| OFRAG00000011463.1 | DNAJ HOMOLOG SUBFAMILY C MEMBER 13 |
| OFRAG00000011464.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011465.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011466.1 | SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011467.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011468.1 | 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000011469.1 | ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000011470.1 | ADAMTS A DISINTEGRIN AND METALLOPROTEASE WITH THROMBOSPONDIN MOTIFS PROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000011471.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011472.1 | MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000011473.1 | SUA5 |
| OFRAG00000011474.1 | SUA5 |
