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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000003189.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003190.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000003191.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003192.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000003193.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003194.1 | INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN,N-TERMINAL |
| OFRAG00000003195.1 | GENE 9195-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003196.1 | GENE, 32742-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003197.1 | ATP-DEPENDENT RNA HELICASE |
| OFRAG00000003198.1 | SOLUBLE LIVER ANTIGEN/LIVER PANCREAS ANTIGEN |
| OFRAG00000003199.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003200.1 | SOLUBLE LIVER ANTIGEN/LIVER PANCREAS ANTIGEN |
| OFRAG00000003201.1 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR S-II ZINC FINGER DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000003202.1 | INTEGRIN BETA-1-BINDING PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000003203.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003204.1 | PROPERDIN |
| OFRAG00000003205.1 | PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2C |
| OFRAG00000003206.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE WNK WITH NO LYSINE -RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003207.1 | SPINDLE ASSEMBLY ABNORMAL PROTEIN 6 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000003208.1 | CELL CYCLE CONTROL PROTEIN CWF22-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003209.1 | FERROCHELATASE |
| OFRAG00000003210.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000003211.1 | TRANSPORTIN 3 AND IMPORTIN 13 |
| OFRAG00000003212.1 | ACTIN |
| OFRAG00000003213.1 | LOW-TEMPERATURE VIABILITY PROTEIN LTV1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003214.1 | ES1 PROTEIN HOMOLOG, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000003215.1 | U1 SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN 70 KD |
| OFRAG00000003216.1 | HISTONE DEACETYLASE HDAC1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003217.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000003218.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003219.1 | LEPTIN RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003220.1 | ADULT RETINA PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000003221.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003222.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003223.1 | SCY1-RELATED S/T PROTEIN KINASE-LIKE |
| OFRAG00000003224.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003225.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003226.1 | PHOSPHOINOSITIDE-SPECIFIC PHOSPHOLIPASE C FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000003227.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003228.1 | CARNITINE O-ACYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000003229.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003230.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003231.1 | NEUROCHONDRIN |
| OFRAG00000003232.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003233.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003234.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003235.1 | STG PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000003236.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003237.1 | LIM DOMAIN KINASE 1 |
| OFRAG00000003238.1 | BREAST CARCINOMA AMPLIFIED SEQUENCE 3 |
