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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000012741.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012742.1 | SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE 72 |
| OFRAG00000012743.1 | INWARD RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000012744.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012745.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR TFIID/SUPT3-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000012745.2 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR TFIID/SUPT3-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000012746.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000012747.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 2 SUBUNIT 3 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000012748.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012749.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012750.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012751.1 | GUANYLATE BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000012752.1 | TRNA-DIHYDROURIDINE(20) SYNTHASE [NAD(P)+]-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000012753.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012754.1 | RECQ-MEDIATED GENOME INSTABILITY PROTEIN 1 RMI1 |
| OFRAG00000012755.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL ATP SYNTHASE B CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000012756.1 | TUBBY-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000012757.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012758.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012759.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012760.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012761.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012762.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012763.1 | PROTEIN DIAPHANOUS |
| OFRAG00000012764.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012765.1 | FTP DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000012766.1 | FTP DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000012767.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012768.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012769.1 | FTP DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000012770.1 | FTP DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000012771.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012772.1 | FTP DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000012773.1 | BETA-1,4-GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000012774.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012775.1 | CYTOPLASMIC POLYADENYLATION ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN CPEB |
| OFRAG00000012775.2 | CYTOPLASMIC POLYADENYLATION ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN CPEB |
| OFRAG00000012776.1 | CAMK FAMILY PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000012777.1 | SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE ASSEMBLY FACTOR 4, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000012778.1 | TAF9 RNA POLYMERASE II, TATA BOX-BINDING PROTEIN (TBP)-ASSOCIATED FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000012779.1 | SAM-DEPENDENT METHYLTRANSFERASE SUPERFAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000012780.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012781.1 | 2,5-DIKETO-D-GLUCONIC ACID REDUCTASE |
| OFRAG00000012782.1 | PAX6 NEIGHBOR PROTEIN PAXNEB |
| OFRAG00000012783.1 | DNA REPAIR/RNA PROCESSING CPSF FAMILY |
| OFRAG00000012784.1 | BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, TWIST |
| OFRAG00000012785.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012786.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012787.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000012788.1 |
