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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000002420.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002421.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 207 |
| OFRAG00000002422.1 | EMILIN ELASTIN MICROFIBRIL INTERFACE-LOCATED PROTEIN ELASTIN MICROFIBRIL INTERFACER |
| OFRAG00000002423.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002424.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002425.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002426.1 | SPECTRIN/FILAMIN RELATED CYTOSKELETAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002427.1 | INOSITOL POLYPHOSPHATE 5-PHOSPHATASE E |
| OFRAG00000002428.1 | RAB GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000002429.1 | TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR IF-2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002430.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002431.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN ARISTALESS |
| OFRAG00000002432.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002433.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002434.1 | FERM DOMAIN (PROTEIN4.1-EZRIN-RADIXIN-MOESIN) FAMILY |
| OFRAG00000002435.1 | PROTEIN MAGO NASHI HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000002436.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002437.1 | DUMPY: SHORTER THAN WILD-TYPE |
| OFRAG00000002438.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002439.1 | COMM DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 10 |
| OFRAG00000002440.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002441.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000002442.1 | KINESIN LIGHT CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000002442.2 | KINESIN LIGHT CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000002442.3 | KINESIN LIGHT CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000002442.4 | KINESIN LIGHT CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000002442.5 | KINESIN LIGHT CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000002443.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002444.1 | HISTIDINE-RICH CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002445.1 | PHOSPHORYN, PUTATIVE-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002446.1 | ZINC FINGER CCCH DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 14 |
| OFRAG00000002447.1 | YLP MOTIF CONTAINING PROTEIN NUCLEAR PROTEIN ZAP |
| OFRAG00000002448.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 15 |
| OFRAG00000002449.1 | ADAM10/ADAM17 METALLOPEPTIDASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000002450.1 | PRE-MRNA-SPLICING FACTOR CWF18 |
| OFRAG00000002451.1 | NEPHRIN |
| OFRAG00000002451.2 | NEPHRIN |
| OFRAG00000002452.1 | WD REPEAT CONTAINING PROTEIN 3 WDR3 |
| OFRAG00000002453.1 | DIMETHYLANILINE MONOOXYGENASE |
| OFRAG00000002454.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002455.1 | PROTEASOME SUBUNIT ALPHA/BETA |
| OFRAG00000002456.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002457.1 | DOMAIN OF UNKNOWN FUNCTION 71 DUF71 -CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002458.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002459.1 | SODIUM/POTASSIUM/CALCIUM EXCHANGER |
| OFRAG00000002460.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 151 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000002461.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002462.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002463.1 | COMPONENT OF OLIGOMERIC GOLGI COMPLEX 6 |
| OFRAG00000002464.1 | GDP-D-GLUCOSE PHOSPHORYLASE 1 |
