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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000017094.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017095.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017096.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017097.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017098.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017099.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017100.1 | THADA/DEATH RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000017101.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017102.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL RIBOSOME PROTEIN L39/PROLYL-TRNA LIGASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000017103.1 | NASOPHARYNGEAL EPITHELIUM SPECIFIC PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000017104.1 | SURFEIT LOCUS PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000017105.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017106.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 180 |
| OFRAG00000017107.1 | ARRESTIN DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000017108.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017109.1 | D-TYROSYL-TRNA TYR DEACYLASE |
| OFRAG00000017110.1 | NF-KAPPA-B INHIBITOR ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000017111.1 | TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000017112.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017113.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017114.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017115.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017116.1 | ARMADILLO REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN 4 ARMC4 |
| OFRAG00000017117.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017118.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017119.1 | THIOREDOXIN DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 9 |
| OFRAG00000017120.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017121.1 | MAP/MICROTUBULE AFFINITY-REGULATING KINASE |
| OFRAG00000017122.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000017123.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE SBK1 |
| OFRAG00000017124.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017125.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017126.1 | MACROPHAGE ERYTHROBLAST ATTACHER-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017127.1 | RNA POLYMERASE III DNA DIRECTED -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017128.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017129.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017130.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000017131.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL IMPORT INNER MEMBRANE TRANSLOCASE SUBUNIT TIM44 |
| OFRAG00000017132.1 | AG-1 BLOOD STAGE MEMBRANE PROTEIN HOMOLOGUE |
| OFRAG00000017133.1 | PROTEIN CBG17025 |
| OFRAG00000017134.1 | T-COMPLEX-ASSOCIATED-TESTIS-EXPRESSED 1/ DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000017135.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000017136.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN KIAA1109 |
| OFRAG00000017137.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017138.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017139.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017140.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017141.1 | MUCIN-22 |
| OFRAG00000017142.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN KIAA1109 |
| OFRAG00000017143.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN KIAA1109 |
