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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000001937.1 | DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE |
| OFRAG00000001938.1 | DEHYDRODOLICHYL DIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000001939.1 | WD REPEAT DOMAIN 9 |
| OFRAG00000001940.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER SUBFAMILY A ABCA |
| OFRAG00000001941.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000001942.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER SUBFAMILY A ABCA |
| OFRAG00000001943.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001944.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTER SUBFAMILY A ABCA |
| OFRAG00000001945.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001946.1 | 3'-5' EXORIBONUCLEASE CSL4-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001947.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001948.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001949.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 4E RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001950.1 | RAB GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000001950.2 | RAB GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000001951.1 | ASSOCIATE OF C-MYC AMY-1 |
| OFRAG00000001952.1 | FAMILY WITH SEQUENCE SIMILARITY 228 MEMBER A |
| OFRAG00000001953.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001954.1 | PROTEASE M1 ZINC METALLOPROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000001955.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001956.1 | PROTEASE M1 ZINC METALLOPROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000001957.1 | O-ACYLTRANSFERASE (WSD1-LIKE) FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001958.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001959.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001960.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000001961.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001962.1 | IG-LIKE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001963.1 | CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE |
| OFRAG00000001964.1 | CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE |
| OFRAG00000001965.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001966.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001967.1 | DNA POLYMERASE THETA, PUTATIVE (AFU_ORTHOLOGUE AFUA_1G05260)-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001968.1 | DISKS LARGE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN DAP SAP90/PSD-95-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001969.1 | IRON-SULFUR CLUSTER ASSEMBLY ENZYME NIFU HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000001970.1 | EQUILIBRATIVE NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000001971.1 | BETA-1,2-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE II |
| OFRAG00000001972.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001973.1 | TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR P66-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000001974.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001975.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000001976.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001977.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001978.1 | REGULATOR OF MICROTUBULE DYNAMICS PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000001979.1 | ISOPENTENYL-DIPHOSPHATE DELTA-ISOMERASE |
| OFRAG00000001980.1 | |
| OFRAG00000001981.1 | AGAP001464-PB |
| OFRAG00000001982.1 | PENTATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN 2, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000001983.1 | PEPTIDYL-PROLYL CIS-TRANS ISOMERASE |
| OFRAG00000001984.1 | SUGAR KINASE |
| OFRAG00000001985.1 | F-BOX DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN, EXPRESSED |
