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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000003388.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003389.1 | POLYCYSTIN-1 |
| OFRAG00000003390.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003391.1 | ACID PHOSPHATASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003392.1 | ACID PHOSPHATASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003393.1 | GH11602P |
| OFRAG00000003394.1 | INNER NUCLEAR MEMBRANE PROTEIN MAN1 LEM DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000003395.1 | TYROSINE-PROTEIN KINASE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000003396.1 | PDZ DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000003397.1 | REPLICATION PROTEIN A3 |
| OFRAG00000003398.1 | CYTOCHROME B561-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003399.1 | ROUND SPERMATID BASIC PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000003400.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000003401.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003402.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003403.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003404.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003405.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003405.2 | |
| OFRAG00000003406.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000003407.1 | MY011 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000003408.1 | CTP SYNTHASE |
| OFRAG00000003409.1 | SWAP-70 RECOMBINASE |
| OFRAG00000003410.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003410.2 | |
| OFRAG00000003411.1 | FMRFAMIDE RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003412.1 | SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE IAL-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003413.1 | ATP-DEPENDENT RNA HELICASE RHLE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003414.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003415.1 | TGF-BETA INDUCED APOPTOSIS PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000003416.1 | RETINOL DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000003417.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL IMPORT INNER MEMBRANE TRANSLOCASE SUBUNIT TIM10 |
| OFRAG00000003418.1 | MITOTIC CHECKPOINT SERINE/THREONINE-PROTEIN KINASE BUB1 |
| OFRAG00000003419.1 | MIR DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000003420.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003421.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003422.1 | CATION TRANSPORTING ATPASE |
| OFRAG00000003423.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003424.1 | BETA-1,3-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000003425.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000003426.1 | N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000003427.1 | AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE, GAMMA REGULATORY SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000003428.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 4B/4H |
| OFRAG00000003429.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003430.1 | SYNAPSIN |
| OFRAG00000003431.1 | LD33804P |
| OFRAG00000003432.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003433.1 | |
| OFRAG00000003434.1 | MACROPHAGE ERYTHROBLAST ATTACHER-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000003435.1 | MAP/MICROTUBULE AFFINITY-REGULATING KINASE |
