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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000011671.1 | ACTIN |
| OFRAG00000011672.1 | ACTIN |
| OFRAG00000011673.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 39-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011673.2 | ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 39-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011674.1 | SODIUM/CHLORIDE DEPENDENT TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000011675.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011676.1 | IKB KINASE |
| OFRAG00000011677.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011678.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011679.1 | PROTEIN CASC3 |
| OFRAG00000011680.1 | ADP-RIBOSYLGLYCOHYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000011681.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000011682.1 | TUBULIN POLYGLUTAMYLASE |
| OFRAG00000011683.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011684.1 | GROWTH HORMONE-INDUCIBLE SOLUBLE PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011685.1 | LUPUS LA PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011685.2 | LUPUS LA PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011686.1 | DNAJ HOMOLOG SUBFAMILY C MEMBER 25 |
| OFRAG00000011687.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011688.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011689.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011690.1 | O-METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000011691.1 | CYTOCHROME B5 REDUCTASE 4 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000011692.1 | CO-CHAPERONE PROTEIN DJLA |
| OFRAG00000011693.1 | PROTEIN EVA-1 |
| OFRAG00000011694.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011695.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011696.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011697.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011698.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000011699.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011700.1 | CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011701.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 13 MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000011702.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011703.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 3 -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011704.1 | MENORIN (DENDRITIC BRANCHING PROTEIN) |
| OFRAG00000011705.1 | MYOTROPHIN |
| OFRAG00000011706.1 | PEPTIDE N-GLYCANASE PNGASE -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011707.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 171 |
| OFRAG00000011708.1 | RING-H2 FINGER PROTEIN ATL51-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011709.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011710.1 | CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000011711.1 | DNA MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN MUTS FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000011712.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011713.1 | RAD50 |
| OFRAG00000011714.1 | FTP DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011715.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000011716.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011717.1 | SMG-7 SUPPRESSOR WITH MORPHOLOGICAL EFFECT ON GENITALIA PROTEIN 7 |
| OFRAG00000011718.1 | TRANSDUCIN-LIKE ENHANCER PROTEIN |
