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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000001311.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001312.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000001313.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001314.1 | ENHANCER OF YELLOW 2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000001315.1 | INACTIVE PEPTIDYL-PROLYL CIS-TRANS ISOMERASE FKBP6 |
| OFRAG00000001316.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE SUB-FAMILY C |
| OFRAG00000001317.1 | ACID AMIDASE |
| OFRAG00000001318.1 | CREB/ATF BZIP TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000001319.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001320.1 | SEL-1-LIKE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001321.1 | SERINE-THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000001322.1 | GTP-BINDING PROTEIN 8 |
| OFRAG00000001323.1 | 39S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L12 |
| OFRAG00000001324.1 | CRUMBS FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000001325.1 | TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000001326.1 | ALKALINE CERAMIDASE 3 |
| OFRAG00000001327.1 | CARBOXYLASE:PYRUVATE/ACETYL-COA/PROPIONYL-COA CARBOXYLASE |
| OFRAG00000001328.1 | UBIQUITIN CARBOXYL-TERMINAL HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000001329.1 | REPLICATION FACTOR C / DNA POLYMERASE III GAMMA-TAU SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000001330.1 | CRUMBS FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000001331.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001332.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001333.1 | INNEXIN |
| OFRAG00000001334.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001335.1 | INNEXIN |
| OFRAG00000001336.1 | VESICLE PROTEIN SORTING-ASSOCIATED |
| OFRAG00000001337.1 | SEC10 |
| OFRAG00000001338.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-RICH PROTEIN ADG2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001339.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-RICH PROTEIN ADG2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001340.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001341.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-RICH PROTEIN ADG2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001342.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001343.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001344.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-RICH PROTEIN ADG2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001345.1 | RBR FAMILY RING FINGER AND IBR DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000001346.1 | RHO FAMILY GTPASE |
| OFRAG00000001347.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001348.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001349.1 | BREAST CANCER TYPE 2 SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN BRCA2 |
| OFRAG00000001350.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001351.1 | FGF RECEPTOR ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000001352.1 | AT01821P-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001353.1 | PREFOLDIN SUBUNIT 3 |
| OFRAG00000001354.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000001355.1 | MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN 1, 3 |
| OFRAG00000001356.1 | CADHERIN DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001357.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001358.1 | MYB-LIKE PROTEIN V |
| OFRAG00000001359.1 | SPORE COAT PROTEIN SP85 |
| OFRAG00000001360.1 |
