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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000002183.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 22 MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000002184.1 | ATPASE INHIBITOR/5-FORMYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE CYCLO-LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000002185.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002186.1 | MACROGLOBULIN / COMPLEMENT |
| OFRAG00000002187.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002188.1 | 4F2 CELL-SURFACE ANTIGEN HEAVY CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000002189.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002190.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002191.1 | SPERMATOGENESIS-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 6 SPATA6 |
| OFRAG00000002192.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002193.1 | POLYRIBONUCLEOTIDE NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000002194.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002195.1 | PROTEASE M1 ZINC METALLOPROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000002196.1 | PROTEASE M1 ZINC METALLOPROTEASE |
| OFRAG00000002197.1 | PROTEIN FOLDING REGULATOR |
| OFRAG00000002198.1 | ZINC/IRON TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000002199.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002200.1 | FUKUTIN RELATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002201.1 | TUBULIN |
| OFRAG00000002202.1 | DOLICHOL-PHOSPHATE MANNOSYLTRANSFERASE SUBUNIT 1 |
| OFRAG00000002203.1 | DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000002204.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED PROTEASOME COMPONENT REGION PCI-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000002205.1 | MICROCEPHALIN |
| OFRAG00000002206.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002207.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002208.1 | MYOTUBULARIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002209.1 | ADAM A DISINTEGRIN AND METALLOPROTEASE DOMAIN |
| OFRAG00000002209.2 | ADAM A DISINTEGRIN AND METALLOPROTEASE DOMAIN |
| OFRAG00000002210.1 | LUPUS LA PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002211.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002212.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002213.1 | HISTONE-LYSINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE EGGLESS |
| OFRAG00000002214.1 | U2 SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN A |
| OFRAG00000002215.1 | PROTEIN CBG16200 |
| OFRAG00000002216.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002217.1 | GENE 9195-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002218.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002219.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 151 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000002220.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 39 |
| OFRAG00000002221.1 | MAJOR FACILITATOR SUPERFAMILY DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000002222.1 | WNT RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002223.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002224.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002225.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002226.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002227.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002228.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002229.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002230.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002231.1 |
