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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000013321.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 232 |
| OFRAG00000013322.1 | ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000013323.1 | VACUOLAR CALCIUM ION TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000013323.2 | VACUOLAR CALCIUM ION TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000013324.1 | ASPARTYL AMINOPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000013325.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000013326.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013327.1 | ORAL-FACIAL-DIGITAL SYNDROME 1 PROTEIN HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000013328.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013329.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013330.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000013331.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL IMPORT INNER MEMBRANE TRANSLOCASE SUBUNIT TIM9B |
| OFRAG00000013332.1 | FROUNT PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000013333.1 | FERM DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000013334.1 | FERM DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000013335.1 | SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA ANTIGEN RECOGNISED BY CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTES |
| OFRAG00000013336.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN ZIC AND GLI |
| OFRAG00000013337.1 | EXPORTIN 1/5 |
| OFRAG00000013338.1 | FARNESYL-DIPHOSPHATE FARNESYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000013339.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013340.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013341.1 | N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE-6-SULFATASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000013342.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013343.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013344.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013345.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013346.1 | DENDRITIC CELL-SPECIFIC TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000013347.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013348.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013349.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013350.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013351.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013352.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013353.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 142 |
| OFRAG00000013353.2 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 142 |
| OFRAG00000013354.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 5-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000013355.1 | CONSORTIN |
| OFRAG00000013356.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 2-ALPHA KINASE EIF2-ALPHA KINASE -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000013357.1 | METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000013358.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013359.1 | ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE BETA-AMYLOID RELATED |
| OFRAG00000013360.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013361.1 | KIF1-BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000013362.1 | DYNEIN 2 LIGHT INTERMEDIATE CHAIN, ISOFORM 2 |
| OFRAG00000013362.2 | DYNEIN 2 LIGHT INTERMEDIATE CHAIN, ISOFORM 2 |
| OFRAG00000013363.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000013364.1 | WD-REPEAT PROTEIN INTERACTING WITH PHOSPHOINOSIDES WIPI -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000013365.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 27 |
| OFRAG00000013366.1 | RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S15P/S13E |
| OFRAG00000013367.1 |
