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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000016506.1 | MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000016507.1 | STAR-RELATED LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 9 |
| OFRAG00000016508.1 | ORMDL PROTEINS |
| OFRAG00000016509.1 | TNF RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000016510.1 | U3 SMALL NUCLEOLAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN PROTEIN IMP4 |
| OFRAG00000016511.1 | PX SERINE/THREONINE KINASE PXK |
| OFRAG00000016512.1 | SORTING NEXIN-4 |
| OFRAG00000016513.1 | PROTEIN CBG20567 |
| OFRAG00000016514.1 | CALPONIN HOMOLOGY DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN DDB_G0272472-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016514.2 | CALPONIN HOMOLOGY DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN DDB_G0272472-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016514.3 | CALPONIN HOMOLOGY DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN DDB_G0272472-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000016515.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016516.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016517.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE TAO1-LIKE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000016518.1 | RIBONUCLEASE H2 SUBUNIT B |
| OFRAG00000016519.1 | SULFATASE MODIFYING FACTOR 1, 2 |
| OFRAG00000016520.1 | FACIOGENITAL DYSPLASIA PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000016520.2 | FACIOGENITAL DYSPLASIA PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000016521.1 | UBIQUILIN |
| OFRAG00000016522.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016523.1 | LIM DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000016524.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016525.1 | GAMMA-SECRETASE SUBUNIT PEN-2 |
| OFRAG00000016526.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016527.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016528.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016529.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016530.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016531.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016532.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016533.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016534.1 | THISBE |
| OFRAG00000016535.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016536.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016537.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016538.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000016539.1 | BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, TWIST |
| OFRAG00000016540.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016541.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016542.1 | HYPOXANTHINE-GUANINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000016543.1 | GLYCYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE/DNA POLYMERASE SUBUNIT GAMMA-2 |
| OFRAG00000016544.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER SUBFAMILY A ABCA |
| OFRAG00000016545.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER SUBFAMILY A ABCA |
| OFRAG00000016546.1 | NICOLIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000016547.1 | HISTIDINE TRIAD HIT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000016548.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016549.1 | |
| OFRAG00000016550.1 | MIP08469P |
| OFRAG00000016551.1 | NADH-UBIQUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE 13 KD-A SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000016552.1 |
