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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000015017.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000015018.1 | COMPLEMENT COMPONENT-RELATED SUSHI DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000015019.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015020.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015021.1 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015021.2 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015022.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000015023.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000015024.1 | TUFTELIN-INTERACTING PROTEIN 11-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015025.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015026.1 | ALPHA-1,3/1,6-MANNOSYLTRANSFERASE ALG2 |
| OFRAG00000015027.1 | MYOTUBULARIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015028.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015029.1 | CS DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000015030.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000015031.1 | RAN GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000015032.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015033.1 | PAIRED MESODERM HOMEOBOX PROTEIN 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015034.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015035.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015036.1 | MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000015037.1 | LP21163P |
| OFRAG00000015037.2 | LP21163P |
| OFRAG00000015038.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015039.1 | NF-KAPPA-B-REPRESSING FACTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015040.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015041.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015042.1 | MITOTIC SPINDLE ASSEMBLY CHECKPOINT PROTEIN MAD2 |
| OFRAG00000015043.1 | TAX1 BINDING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015043.2 | TAX1 BINDING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015044.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015044.2 | |
| OFRAG00000015045.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015046.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 89-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015047.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015048.1 | ARYLSULFATASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000015049.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015050.1 | TYROSINE-PROTEIN KINASE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000015051.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015052.1 | O-METHYLTRANSFERASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000015053.1 | URINARY PROTEIN RUP /ACROSOMAL PROTEIN SP-10 |
| OFRAG00000015054.1 | BETA-1,4-GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000015055.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000015056.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000015057.1 | 60S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L27A |
| OFRAG00000015058.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015059.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015060.1 | |
| OFRAG00000015061.1 | NOTCH LIGAND FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000015062.1 |
