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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000004012.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000004013.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR TKR-1-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004014.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 17 |
| OFRAG00000004015.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004016.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 17 |
| OFRAG00000004017.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004018.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000004019.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004020.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000004021.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004022.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004023.1 | ACTIN |
| OFRAG00000004024.1 | HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN |
| OFRAG00000004025.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL IMPORT RECEPTOR SUBUNIT TOM22 |
| OFRAG00000004026.1 | MAMMALIAN EPENDYMIN-RELATED PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000004027.1 | PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1 REGULATORY SUBUNIT SDS22-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004028.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004029.1 | PDZ AND LIM DOMAIN PROTEIN ZASP |
| OFRAG00000004030.1 | SERINE PROTEASE FAMILY S10 SERINE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000004031.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004032.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004033.1 | ROPPORIN-1-LIKE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004034.1 | SLIT RELATED LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT NEURONAL PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004035.1 | H4 D10S170 PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004036.1 | PROTEIN HAPLESS 2 |
| OFRAG00000004037.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000004038.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004039.1 | PROTEIN SIDEKICK |
| OFRAG00000004039.2 | PROTEIN SIDEKICK |
| OFRAG00000004040.1 | GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000004041.1 | UNHEALTHY RIBOSOME BIOGENESIS PROTEIN 2 HOMOLOG |
| OFRAG00000004042.1 | TRNA-SPLICING ENDONUCLEASE SUBUNIT SEN15 |
| OFRAG00000004043.1 | THADA/DEATH RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004044.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004045.1 | CADHERIN DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004046.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004047.1 | CCCH ZINC FINGER/TIS11-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004048.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004049.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004050.1 | DNA POLYMERASE 2 ALPHA 70 KDA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000004051.1 | 2-OXOGLUTARATE DEHYDROGENASE |
| OFRAG00000004052.1 | TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT PROTEIN 8 |
| OFRAG00000004053.1 | DENDRITIC CELL-SPECIFIC TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004054.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004055.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004056.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004057.1 | SPROUTY-RELATED, EVH1 DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000004058.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004059.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004060.1 | DOMON DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN FRRS1L |
