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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000012835.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012836.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012837.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012838.1 | CONTACTIN 5 |
| OFRAG00000012839.1 | C2H2 ZINC FINGER CGI-62-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000012840.1 | ADAM10/ADAM17 METALLOPEPTIDASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000012841.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012842.1 | ECDYSONE-INDUCIBLE GENE E1, ISOFORM A |
| OFRAG00000012843.1 | NOTCH LIGAND FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000012844.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000012845.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000012846.1 | RAS, DI-RAS, AND RHEB FAMILY MEMBERS OF SMALL GTPASE SUPERFAMILY |
| OFRAG00000012847.1 | METHIONINE AMINOPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000012848.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012849.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012850.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012851.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012852.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 22 MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000012853.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012854.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000012855.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 22 MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000012856.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012857.1 | ADENYLATE CYCLASE TYPE 1 |
| OFRAG00000012858.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012859.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL ATP SYNTHASE COUPLING FACTOR B |
| OFRAG00000012860.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012861.1 | INWARD RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000012862.1 | YALI0E18722P |
| OFRAG00000012863.1 | STG PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000012864.1 | PHOSPHATASE WITH HOMOLOGY TO TENSIN |
| OFRAG00000012865.1 | PROTEIN CBG11839-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000012866.1 | CARBONIC ANHYDRASE |
| OFRAG00000012867.1 | CATION CHANNEL SPERM-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 3 |
| OFRAG00000012868.1 | SET AND MYND DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 4 |
| OFRAG00000012869.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012870.1 | CHITINASE |
| OFRAG00000012871.1 | CHITINASE |
| OFRAG00000012872.1 | MCG48959-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000012873.1 | MCG48959-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000012874.1 | N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000012875.1 | FANCONI ANEMIA GROUP M FANCM FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000012876.1 | |
| OFRAG00000012877.1 | VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT CALCIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT ALPHA-2/DELTA-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000012878.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 179 |
| OFRAG00000012879.1 | PRE-MRNA PROCESSING PROTEIN PRP39-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000012880.1 | CWF19, CELL CYCLE CONTROL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000012881.1 | KELCH REPEAT DOMAIN |
| OFRAG00000012882.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 97 |
| OFRAG00000012883.1 | 40S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S25 |
| OFRAG00000012884.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
