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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000011816.1 | PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR GPR1, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011817.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011818.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011819.1 | INOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE/HAM1 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011820.1 | INOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE/HAM1 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011821.1 | OXIDOREDUCTASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011822.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 180 |
| OFRAG00000011823.1 | RAS-RELATED PROTEIN RAB |
| OFRAG00000011824.1 | PROTEIN DIAPHANOUS |
| OFRAG00000011824.2 | PROTEIN DIAPHANOUS |
| OFRAG00000011825.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011826.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011827.1 | CELL DIVISION CYCLE 20 CDC20 FIZZY -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011828.1 | NUCLEAR HORMONE RECEPTOR HR3-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011829.1 | KINESIN-RELATED PROTEIN 6 |
| OFRAG00000011830.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011831.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000011832.1 | CILIA- AND FLAGELLA-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 300 |
| OFRAG00000011833.1 | SYNAPSE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011834.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011835.1 | LD27203P-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011836.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011837.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011838.1 | ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000011839.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011840.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011841.1 | CODANIN-1 |
| OFRAG00000011842.1 | ZINC FINGER CCHC DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 7 |
| OFRAG00000011843.1 | THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011844.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011845.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000011846.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011847.1 | DUAL SPECIFICITY MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 5-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011848.1 | CYTOPLASMIC POLYADENYLATION ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN CPEB |
| OFRAG00000011849.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR TFIID |
| OFRAG00000011850.1 | OVOCHYMASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011851.1 | COMPLEMENT COMPONENT 1, S SUBCOMPONENT-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011852.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011853.1 | OVOCHYMASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011854.1 | RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S9 |
| OFRAG00000011855.1 | PARVIN |
| OFRAG00000011856.1 | METAXIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000011857.1 | 14-3-3 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000011858.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011859.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011860.1 | GLUTAMATE--TRNA LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000011861.1 | PDZ DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 8 |
| OFRAG00000011862.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011863.1 | |
| OFRAG00000011864.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
