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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000016269.1 | MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000016270.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016271.1 | CHARGED MULTIVESICULAR BODY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000016272.1 | ANTIGEN BSP, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016273.1 | SIMILAR TO HYPOTHETICAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000016274.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000016275.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016276.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L41 |
| OFRAG00000016277.1 | METALLOPROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000016278.1 | WD40 REPEAT DOMAIN 95 |
| OFRAG00000016279.1 | STABILIZER OF AXONEMAL MICROTUBULES 2 |
| OFRAG00000016280.1 | BAND 7 PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016281.1 | ACYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000016282.1 | DUF614 FAMILY PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016283.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000016284.1 | BETA-1,3-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000016285.1 | AB HYDROLASE SUPERFAMILY PROTEIN C4A8.06C |
| OFRAG00000016286.1 | MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000016287.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR TFIID SUBUNIT 11-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016288.1 | THAP DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000016289.1 | VISUAL SYSTEM HOMEOBOX 2 |
| OFRAG00000016290.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000016291.1 | DYNEIN REGULATORY COMPLEX PROTEIN 8 |
| OFRAG00000016292.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016293.1 | MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000016294.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016295.1 | RAD, GEM/KIR FAMILY MEMBER 2, ISOFORM C |
| OFRAG00000016296.1 | GLYCINE CLEAVAGE SYSTEM H PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000016297.1 | OS02G0815200 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000016298.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR IIE, BETA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000016299.1 | RNA EXONUCLEASE REXO1 / RECO3 FAMILY MEMBER-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016300.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR IIE, BETA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000016301.1 | BACTERIOHEMERYTHRIN |
| OFRAG00000016302.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016303.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016304.1 | NUCLEAR PROTEIN E3-3 |
| OFRAG00000016305.1 | ACYL-COA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000016306.1 | CDC68 RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016307.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016308.1 | CDC68 RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016309.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016310.1 | NADH-UBIQUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE SUBUNIT B14.5B |
| OFRAG00000016311.1 | KRAB AND ZINC FINGER DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000016312.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016313.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016314.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000016315.1 | E3 UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE TRIM36-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016316.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016317.1 | TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000016318.1 | TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL |
