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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000017241.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000017242.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE REGULATORY SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000017242.2 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE REGULATORY SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000017243.1 | S-ANTIGEN PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000017244.1 | JITTERBUG, ISOFORM N |
| OFRAG00000017245.1 | CAMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE REGULATORY CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000017246.1 | ANK_REP_REGION DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017247.1 | IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000017248.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017249.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017250.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017251.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017252.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017253.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017254.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017255.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017256.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017257.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017258.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017259.1 | FMRFAMIDE RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017260.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000017261.1 | NONSENSE-MEDIATED MRNA DECAY PROTEIN 3 |
| OFRAG00000017262.1 | SMAD |
| OFRAG00000017263.1 | PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR GPR1, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017264.1 | PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017265.1 | NMDA RECEPTOR SYNAPTONUCLEAR SIGNALING AND NEURONAL MIGRATION FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000017266.1 | VOLTAGE AND LIGAND GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000017267.1 | VOLTAGE AND LIGAND GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000017268.1 | MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000017269.1 | IG-LIKE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017270.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017271.1 | VACUOLAR PROTEIN SORTING-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 37 |
| OFRAG00000017272.1 | INTRAFLAGELLAR TRANSPORT PROTEIN 20 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000017273.1 | SYNAPTOPHYSIN |
| OFRAG00000017274.1 | RBR FAMILY RING FINGER AND IBR DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000017275.1 | DNA2/NAM7 HELICASE FAMILY |
| OFRAG00000017276.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017277.1 | INNEXIN |
| OFRAG00000017278.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017279.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017280.1 | SIGMA INTRACELLULAR RECEPTOR 2 |
| OFRAG00000017281.1 | 42-9-9 PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017282.1 | SER/THR PROTEIN KINASE-TRB |
| OFRAG00000017282.2 | SER/THR PROTEIN KINASE-TRB |
| OFRAG00000017283.1 | MAP KINASE KINASE KINASE SSK2-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000017284.1 | BETA-1,4-GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000017285.1 | BETA-1,4-GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000017286.1 | |
| OFRAG00000017287.1 | SYNAPTOTAGMIN 14, ISOFORM D |
| OFRAG00000017288.1 |
