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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000002280.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002281.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002282.1 | RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASE |
| OFRAG00000002283.1 | ADP-RIBOSYLATION FACTOR-LIKE PROTEIN 2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002284.1 | AQUAPORIN TRANSPORTER |
| OFRAG00000002285.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002286.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002287.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002288.1 | RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASE |
| OFRAG00000002289.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR IIB-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002290.1 | METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000002291.1 | CASEIN KINASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002292.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT AND EF-HAND DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000002293.1 | NEMITIN (NEURONAL ENRICHED MAP INTERACTING PROTEIN) HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000002294.1 | RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L17 |
| OFRAG00000002295.1 | SETA BINDING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000002296.1 | CDP-DIACYLGLYCEROL--GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE 3-PHOSPHATIDYLTRANSFERASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002297.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002298.1 | MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000002298.2 | MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000002298.3 | MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000002299.1 | TATA BOX-BINDING PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED FACTOR RNA POLYMERASE I SUBUNIT B |
| OFRAG00000002300.1 | SEROLOGICALLY DEFINED COLON CANCER ANTIGEN 8 |
| OFRAG00000002301.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002302.1 | N 2 ,N 2 -DIMETHYLGUANOSINE TRNA METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000002303.1 | TATA BOX-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR RNA POLYMERASE I SUBUNIT C |
| OFRAG00000002304.1 | 26S PROTEASOME REGULATORY SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000002305.1 | USP DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002306.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 3 -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002307.1 | LEUCINE RICH REPEAT FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002308.1 | L-ASPARAGINASE |
| OFRAG00000002308.2 | L-ASPARAGINASE |
| OFRAG00000002308.3 | L-ASPARAGINASE |
| OFRAG00000002309.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002310.1 | LEUCINE-RICH PPR MOTIF-CONTAINING PROTEIN, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000002311.1 | WD REPEAT PROTEIN 26-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002312.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002313.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002314.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002315.1 | AAA DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000002316.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002317.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002318.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002319.1 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002319.2 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002320.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002321.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002322.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002323.1 | STG PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002324.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
