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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000002848.1 | HECT DOMAIN UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000002849.1 | GUANYLYL CYCLASE DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 GUCD1 |
| OFRAG00000002850.1 | HISTONE RNA HAIRPIN-BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002851.1 | ALMS1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002852.1 | COMM DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000002853.1 | GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3C POLYPEPTIDE 1 |
| OFRAG00000002854.1 | GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3C POLYPEPTIDE 1 |
| OFRAG00000002855.1 | 26S PROTEASOME NON-ATPASE REGULATORY SUBUNIT 13 |
| OFRAG00000002856.1 | EXOCYST COMPLEX COMPONENT 8 |
| OFRAG00000002857.1 | RIBOSOMAL S SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000002858.1 | MAP-KINASE ACTIVATING DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN MADD /DENN/AEX-3 C.ELEGANS |
| OFRAG00000002858.2 | MAP-KINASE ACTIVATING DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN MADD /DENN/AEX-3 C.ELEGANS |
| OFRAG00000002859.1 | GLUTAMATE 5-KINASE |
| OFRAG00000002860.1 | PROTEIN EVA-1 |
| OFRAG00000002861.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002862.1 | RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L13 |
| OFRAG00000002863.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002864.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002865.1 | COLLAGEN ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000002866.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002867.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002868.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002869.1 | RAB GDP/GTP EXCHANGE FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000002870.1 | NEUROLIGIN |
| OFRAG00000002871.1 | CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000002872.1 | CARBOXYLESTERASE |
| OFRAG00000002873.1 | PHENYLALANYL-TRNA SYNTHETASE BETA CHAIN AND LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN 47 |
| OFRAG00000002874.1 | DEHYDROGENASES, SHORT CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000002875.1 | PEPTIDYL-PROLYL CIS-TRANS ISOMERASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002876.1 | GLYCINE AMIDINOTRANSFERASE, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000002877.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002878.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002879.1 | BETA LACTAMASE DOMAIN |
| OFRAG00000002880.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002881.1 | ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000002882.1 | ELL-ASSOCIATED FACTOR EAF |
| OFRAG00000002883.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002884.1 | CYTOCHROME P450 FAMILY 7 |
| OFRAG00000002885.1 | UBIQUITIN-ACTIVATING ENZYME E1 |
| OFRAG00000002886.1 | UBIQUITIN-ACTIVATING ENZYME E1 |
| OFRAG00000002887.1 | BLR2807 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002888.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000002889.1 | GAMMA TUBULIN COMPLEX PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002890.1 | CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBUNIT BETA |
| OFRAG00000002891.1 | PROFILIN |
| OFRAG00000002892.1 | ADENINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000002893.1 | SPHINGOSINE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000002894.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000002895.1 | PROTEIN LIN1 |
| OFRAG00000002896.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
