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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000000344.1 | S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000000345.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000000346.1 | PROTEIN REQUIRED FOR HYPHAL ANASTOMOSIS HAM-2 |
| OFRAG00000000347.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000000348.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000000349.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000349.2 | |
| OFRAG00000000349.3 | |
| OFRAG00000000350.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000351.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000352.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000353.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000000354.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000355.1 | ASPARAGINE SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000000356.1 | PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH PROTEIN 5 |
| OFRAG00000000357.1 | CALMODULIN-BINDING TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR CAMTA |
| OFRAG00000000358.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000359.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000000360.1 | PROTEIN MAELSTROM HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000000361.1 | UDP-GLUCURONIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000362.1 | PHOSPHOLIPASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000363.1 | ENHANCER OF RUDIMENTARY ERH |
| OFRAG00000000364.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000365.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000366.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000367.1 | RAS LIKE FAMILY 10 MEMBER B-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000368.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000368.2 | GH08155P |
| OFRAG00000000369.1 | IG(IMMUNOGLOBULIN) AND LRR(LEUCINE RICH REPEAT) DOMAINS |
| OFRAG00000000370.1 | TYROSINE-PROTEIN KINASE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000000371.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000372.1 | TYROSINE-PROTEIN KINASE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000000373.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000374.1 | AMINOTRANSFERASE CLASS III |
| OFRAG00000000375.1 | NEDD4-BINDING PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000000376.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000000377.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000378.1 | LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN 42 |
| OFRAG00000000379.1 | THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE 1 |
| OFRAG00000000380.1 | PIKACHURIN-LIKE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000381.1 | PEPTIDASE S8 |
| OFRAG00000000382.1 | HEPATOMA-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000383.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000384.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000000384.2 | - |
| OFRAG00000000385.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000386.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000387.1 | SERINE-THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000000387.2 | SERINE-THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000000388.1 | CYSTEINE PROTEASE FAMILY C1-RELATED |
