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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000002133.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002134.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002135.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002136.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002137.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002138.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002139.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002140.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002141.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002142.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002143.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002144.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002145.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002146.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002147.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002148.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002149.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002150.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002151.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002152.1 | LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE |
| OFRAG00000002153.1 | EBNA2 BINDING PROTEIN P100 |
| OFRAG00000002154.1 | GEO07735P1-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002155.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000002156.1 | URINARY PROTEIN RUP /ACROSOMAL PROTEIN SP-10 |
| OFRAG00000002157.1 | ALPHA-(1,3)-FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002158.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002159.1 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CASTOR PROTEIN MING -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002160.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002161.1 | ARGININE OR CREATINE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000002162.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000002163.1 | PEPTIDYL-GLYCINE ALPHA-AMIDATING MONOOXYGENASE |
| OFRAG00000002164.1 | UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYME E2 |
| OFRAG00000002165.1 | RECEPTOR-TYPE TYROSINE-PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE |
| OFRAG00000002166.1 | EXPORTIN 4,7-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002167.1 | XPA-BINDING PROTEIN 1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002168.1 | PROTEIN SGT1 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000002169.1 | FORKHEAD BOX PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002170.1 | TRIFUNCTIONAL ENZYME SUBUNIT ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002171.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002172.1 | ACETYL-COA C-ACYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000002173.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002174.1 | MELANOMA-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN MAGE ANTIGEN |
| OFRAG00000002175.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002176.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002177.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002178.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002179.1 | PROTEIN NATD1 |
| OFRAG00000002180.1 | CHLORIDE CHANNEL CLIC-LIKE PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000002181.1 | METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE:HOMOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002182.1 | FOCADHESIN FAMILY MEMBER |
