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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000002373.2 | SEC15 |
| OFRAG00000002374.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002375.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002376.1 | MEMBRANE PROTEIN CH1 RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002376.2 | MEMBRANE PROTEIN CH1 RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002377.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 78 |
| OFRAG00000002378.1 | LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002379.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 127 |
| OFRAG00000002380.1 | HEPARAN SULFATE 2-O-SULFOTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000002381.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002382.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002383.1 | GLYCO_TRANS_2-LIKE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002384.1 | RNA EXONUCLEASE REXO1 / RECO3 FAMILY MEMBER-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002384.2 | RNA EXONUCLEASE REXO1 / RECO3 FAMILY MEMBER-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002385.1 | KINESIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002386.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002387.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002388.1 | PROBABLE PHOSPHOLIPID-TRANSPORTING ATPASE |
| OFRAG00000002389.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002390.1 | OXIDATIVE STRESS-RESPONSE SERINE-RICH PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000002391.1 | PEROXISOMAL MEMBRANE PROTEIN 2, PXMP2 MPV17 |
| OFRAG00000002392.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002393.1 | PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR GPR1, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002394.1 | INSULINOMA-ASSOCIATED 1 |
| OFRAG00000002395.1 | SERINE/ARGININE RICH SPLICING FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000002396.1 | NETRIN/LAMININ-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002397.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002398.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS |
| OFRAG00000002399.1 | UPF0428 PROTEIN CXORF56 |
| OFRAG00000002400.1 | YNEIN REGULATORY COMPLEX SUBUNIT 5 |
| OFRAG00000002401.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002402.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002403.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002404.1 | ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR-RELATED G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000002405.1 | U2 SNRNP AUXILIARY FACTOR, SMALL SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000002406.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002407.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002408.1 | TUBULIN MONOGLYCYLASE TTLL3 |
| OFRAG00000002409.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002410.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002411.1 | RBM25 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002412.1 | SCHLAFEN |
| OFRAG00000002413.1 | ETS |
| OFRAG00000002414.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002415.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002416.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002417.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002417.2 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002418.1 | DNA-REPAIR PROTEIN XRCC1 |
| OFRAG00000002419.1 | HYPOXIA-INDUCBILE GENE 1 HIG1 -RELATED |
