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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000002748.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002749.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002750.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002751.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002752.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002753.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002754.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002755.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN ARISTALESS |
| OFRAG00000002756.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002757.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002758.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002759.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002760.1 | IGGFC_BINDING DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002761.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002762.1 | MALE FERTILITY FACTOR KL5 |
| OFRAG00000002763.1 | CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000002764.1 | COMPLEMENT COMPONENT 1, S SUBCOMPONENT-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002765.1 | ACYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000002766.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002767.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002768.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002769.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002770.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002771.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002772.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002773.1 | RAS-RELATED PROTEIN RAB |
| OFRAG00000002774.1 | NUCLEOTIDE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000002775.1 | 26S PROTEASOME NON-ATPASE REGULATORY SUBUNIT 8 |
| OFRAG00000002776.1 | ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE ALPHA HYDROLASES-LIKE SUPERFAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002777.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE EMP24 DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002778.1 | PSEUDOURIDINE SYNTHASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002779.1 | VACUOLAR PROTEIN SORTING-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 13B |
| OFRAG00000002780.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002781.1 | TYROSINE-TRNA LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000002782.1 | OLIGORIBONUCLEASE, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000002783.1 | RNA BINDING MOTIF RBM PROTEIN -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002784.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002785.1 | NUCLEAR PROTEIN LOCALIZATION 4 |
| OFRAG00000002786.1 | 30S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S16 |
| OFRAG00000002787.1 | RING BOX |
| OFRAG00000002788.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002789.1 | CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE PROTEIN 20 |
| OFRAG00000002790.1 | SERINE/THREONINE PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A PP2A REGULATORY SUBUNIT B |
| OFRAG00000002791.1 | MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY S/T KINASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002792.1 | PROTEIN CBG16200 |
| OFRAG00000002793.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 31 COPPER TRANSPORTERS |
| OFRAG00000002794.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002795.1 | TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR EIF3-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002796.1 | I-KAPPA-B-LIKE PROTEIN IKBL |
| OFRAG00000002797.1 | GOLGIN- RELATED |
