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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000002944.1 | BETA-ALA-HIS DIPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000002945.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002946.1 | ETHANOLAMINE-PHOSPHATE CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000002947.1 | CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000002948.1 | UBX DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002949.1 | CAMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE REGULATORY CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000002950.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002951.1 | BRAIN-SPECIFIC ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR 1-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000002952.1 | UBIQUITIN CARBOXYL-TERMINAL HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000002953.1 | UPF0472 PROTEIN C16ORF72 |
| OFRAG00000002954.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000002955.1 | THIOREDOXIN, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000002956.1 | MULTIPLE INOSITOL POLYPHOSPHATE PHOSPHATASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002957.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002958.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002959.1 | BIFUNCTIONAL 3'-PHOSPHOADENOSINE 5'-PHOSPHOSULFATE SYNTHASE |
| OFRAG00000002960.1 | LATE ENDOSOMAL/LYSOSOMAL MP1 INTERACTING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002961.1 | SGT1 PROTEIN HSGT1 SUPPRESSOR OF GCR2 |
| OFRAG00000002962.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR IA RRN3 |
| OFRAG00000002962.2 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR IA RRN3 |
| OFRAG00000002963.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002964.1 | HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 66 |
| OFRAG00000002965.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002966.1 | RRNA PROCESSING PROTEIN EBNA1-BINDING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002967.1 | PROTEIN FAM183B |
| OFRAG00000002968.1 | ZINC METALLOPROTEASE FAMILY M13 NEPRILYSIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002969.1 | ANTIGEN 332, DBL-LIKE PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002970.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002971.1 | S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000002972.1 | ECTOPIC P GRANULES PROTEIN 5 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000002973.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002974.1 | BILE ACID BETA-GLUCOSIDASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002975.1 | NEUROBLASTOMA-AMPLIFIED SEQUENCE |
| OFRAG00000002976.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002977.1 | LEUCOKININ RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002978.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002979.1 | CYTOCHROME B561-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002980.1 | HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN |
| OFRAG00000002981.1 | SUGAR NUCLEOTIDE EPIMERASE RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002982.1 | EXCISION REPAIR CROSS-COMPLEMENTING 1 ERCC1 |
| OFRAG00000002983.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002984.1 | |
| OFRAG00000002985.1 | ANKYRIN REPEAT DOMAIN 40 |
| OFRAG00000002986.1 | RNA-BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000002987.1 | DUAL SPECIFICITY MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 5-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002988.1 | TWEETY-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000002989.1 | N-ALPHA-ACETYLTRANSFERASE 60 |
| OFRAG00000002989.2 | N-ALPHA-ACETYLTRANSFERASE 60 |
| OFRAG00000002990.1 | TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-BETA RECEPTOR TYPE I AND II |
| OFRAG00000002991.1 | AQUAPORIN TRANSPORTER |
