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.
Gene ID | Description |
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OFRAG00000015793.1 | RNA-BINDING PROTEIN MUSASHI HOMOLOG RBP6 |
OFRAG00000015794.1 | VACUOLAR PROTON ATPASES |
OFRAG00000015795.1 | |
OFRAG00000015796.1 | |
OFRAG00000015797.1 | |
OFRAG00000015798.1 | ANTIGEN 332, DBL-LIKE PROTEIN-RELATED |
OFRAG00000015799.1 | MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN |
OFRAG00000015800.1 | EUKARYOTE SPECIFIC DSRNA BINDING PROTEIN |
OFRAG00000015801.1 | L-ASPARAGINASE |
OFRAG00000015802.1 | |
OFRAG00000015803.1 | CADHERIN-87A |
OFRAG00000015804.1 | TFIIH, POLYPEPTIDE 4 |
OFRAG00000015805.1 | RIBONUCLEOSIDE-DIPHOSPHATE REDUCTASE LARGE CHAIN |
OFRAG00000015806.1 | URIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE |
OFRAG00000015806.2 | URIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE |
OFRAG00000015807.1 | |
OFRAG00000015808.1 | GAMMA TUBULIN COMPLEX PROTEIN |
OFRAG00000015809.1 | PROBABLE PHOSPHOLIPID-TRANSPORTING ATPASE |
OFRAG00000015810.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE TAO |
OFRAG00000015811.1 | CULLIN |
OFRAG00000015812.1 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
OFRAG00000015813.1 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
OFRAG00000015814.1 | |
OFRAG00000015815.1 | 28S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S34, MITOCHONDRIAL |
OFRAG00000015816.1 | AMIDOPHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE |
OFRAG00000015817.1 | DNA REPLICATION LICENSING FACTOR MCM FAMILY MEMBER |
OFRAG00000015818.1 | TRYPTASE-RELATED |
OFRAG00000015819.1 | DISCOIDIN, CUB, EGF, LAMININ , AND ZINC METALLOPROTEASE DOMAIN CONTAINING |
OFRAG00000015820.1 | OPSIN |
OFRAG00000015821.1 | |
OFRAG00000015822.1 | |
OFRAG00000015823.1 | |
OFRAG00000015824.1 | |
OFRAG00000015825.1 | ZNF44 PROTEIN |
OFRAG00000015826.1 | TRANSFERASE, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
OFRAG00000015827.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
OFRAG00000015828.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
OFRAG00000015829.1 | VACUOLAR PROTON ATPASES |
OFRAG00000015829.2 | VACUOLAR PROTON ATPASES |
OFRAG00000015830.1 | NUCLEAR PORE GLYCOPROTEIN P62-RELATED |
OFRAG00000015830.2 | NUCLEAR PORE GLYCOPROTEIN P62-RELATED |
OFRAG00000015831.1 | TYROSINE-PROTEIN KINASE RECEPTOR |
OFRAG00000015832.1 | ARMADILLO-TYPE FOLD-RELATED |
OFRAG00000015833.1 | |
OFRAG00000015834.1 | ACYL-COA-BINDING PROTEIN, ACBP |
OFRAG00000015835.1 | LIPOXYGENASE |
OFRAG00000015836.1 | |
OFRAG00000015837.1 | TESTICULAR HAPLOID EXPRESSED GENE PROTEIN |
OFRAG00000015838.1 | TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR B POLYPEPTIDE 3 |
OFRAG00000015839.1 | TRAFFICKING PROTEIN PARTICLE COMPLEX SUBUNIT 2 |