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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000013998.1 | CADHERIN DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000013999.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014000.1 | ADP-RIBOSYLATION FACTOR GTPASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN 3, ISOFORM H-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000014001.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014002.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014003.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014004.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014005.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014006.1 | ACYLPYRUVASE |
| OFRAG00000014007.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014008.1 | TELOMERE LENGTH AND SILENCING PROTEIN 1 TLS1 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000014009.1 | CLASS IV SAM-BINDING METHYLTRANSFERASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000014010.1 | GUANYLYL CYCLASE |
| OFRAG00000014011.1 | WD REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN POP1 |
| OFRAG00000014012.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000014013.1 | HISTONE H3 |
| OFRAG00000014014.1 | CLATHRIN LIGHT CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000014015.1 | PROCOLLAGEN-LYSINE,2-OXOGLUTARATE 5-DIOXYGENASE/GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE 25 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000014016.1 | TRICALBIN-1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000014017.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014018.1 | HISTAMINE RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000014019.1 | MYOSIN REGULATORY LIGHT CHAIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000014020.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014021.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014022.1 | 5'->3' EXORIBONUCLEASE |
| OFRAG00000014023.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL GLYCAN |
| OFRAG00000014024.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000014025.1 | SEC14 RELATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000014026.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000014027.1 | PROTEIN CBG17025 |
| OFRAG00000014028.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000014029.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000014030.1 | MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION PROTEIN SPO11 |
| OFRAG00000014031.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014032.1 | NUCLEOLAR GTP-BINDING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000014033.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014034.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014035.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000014036.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014037.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014038.1 | GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000014038.2 | GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000014038.3 | GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000014039.1 | SKICH DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000014040.1 | CARBOXYLASE:PYRUVATE/ACETYL-COA/PROPIONYL-COA CARBOXYLASE |
| OFRAG00000014041.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000014042.1 | TYROSINE-PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE |
| OFRAG00000014043.1 | |
| OFRAG00000014044.1 | SI:DKEY-19B23.12-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000014045.1 | RIM BINDING PROTEIN-RELATED |
