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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000001740.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001741.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000001742.1 | STROMAL INTERACTION MOLECULE HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000001743.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001744.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001745.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN CDX |
| OFRAG00000001746.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001747.1 | CALPAIN |
| OFRAG00000001748.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001749.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001750.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001751.1 | ADENYLYL CYCLASE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001752.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME MAINTENANCE EXONUCLEASE 1 |
| OFRAG00000001753.1 | 26S PROTEASOME REGULATORY SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000001754.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001755.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001756.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001757.1 | CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE |
| OFRAG00000001758.1 | CRUMBS FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000001759.1 | EGF-LIKE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001760.1 | MUCIN 4-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001761.1 | MAP/MICROTUBULE AFFINITY-REGULATING KINASE |
| OFRAG00000001762.1 | AAA-FAMILY ATPASE |
| OFRAG00000001763.1 | TROPONIN C-AKIN-1 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001764.1 | TROPONIN C-AKIN-1 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001765.1 | WD40 REPEAT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001766.1 | OCTANOYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000001767.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT AND MYND DOMAIN PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000001768.1 | MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN 1, 3 |
| OFRAG00000001769.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001770.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001771.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001772.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE RIO1 |
| OFRAG00000001773.1 | SYNAPTIC VESICLE GLYCOPROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000001774.1 | EPIMERASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001775.1 | DETERIN |
| OFRAG00000001776.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001777.1 | PROLYL ENDOPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000001778.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001779.1 | HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN DSP1 |
| OFRAG00000001780.1 | TRANSKETOLASE |
| OFRAG00000001781.1 | BROMODOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 8 |
| OFRAG00000001782.1 | EF-HAND AND COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000001783.1 | COILED-COIL-HELIX-COILED-COIL-HELIX DOMAIN CONTAINING 2/NUR77 |
| OFRAG00000001784.1 | CYTIDINE DEAMINASE |
| OFRAG00000001785.1 | DACHSHUND |
| OFRAG00000001786.1 | AQUAPORIN TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000001787.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001788.1 | CORE-BINDING FACTOR, BETA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000001789.1 | TRANSLOCATION PROTEIN SEC62 |
