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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000004390.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004391.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004392.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004393.1 | CYTOSOLIC CARBOXYPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000004393.2 | CYTOSOLIC CARBOXYPEPTIDASE |
| OFRAG00000004394.1 | RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEIN WITH IQ MOTIF |
| OFRAG00000004395.1 | METAL TRANSPORTER CNNM |
| OFRAG00000004396.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE-BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004397.1 | UFM1-SPECIFIC PROTEASE 2 |
| OFRAG00000004398.1 | TOL-PAL SYSTEM PROTEIN TOLA |
| OFRAG00000004399.1 | PKSB |
| OFRAG00000004400.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004401.1 | SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 5 |
| OFRAG00000004402.1 | RE38146P |
| OFRAG00000004403.1 | PA-PL1 PHOSPHOLIPASE FAMILY |
| OFRAG00000004404.1 | TRACE AMINE-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR 19N-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004405.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004406.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004407.1 | CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004408.1 | CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004409.1 | CYTIDYLYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004410.1 | TRNA (ADENINE(58)-N(1))-METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004411.1 | SEEDY PROTEIN A/C FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000004412.1 | RING ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004413.1 | MAP/MICROTUBULE AFFINITY-REGULATING KINASE |
| OFRAG00000004414.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004415.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004416.1 | CRUMBS FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000004417.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004418.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004419.1 | PROTEIN CBG05131 |
| OFRAG00000004420.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004421.1 | V-TYPE ATP SYNTHASE SUBUNIT D |
| OFRAG00000004422.1 | SORTING NEXIN FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000004423.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 175 |
| OFRAG00000004424.1 | TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAF |
| OFRAG00000004425.1 | CLE |
| OFRAG00000004426.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000004427.1 | HAMARTIN |
| OFRAG00000004428.1 | NEUROENDOCRINE PROTEIN 7B2 |
| OFRAG00000004429.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004430.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004431.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004432.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004433.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004434.1 | CLASS II AMINOTRANSFERASE/8-AMINO-7-OXONONANOATE SYNTHASE |
| OFRAG00000004435.1 | PRE-MRNA SPLICING FACTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004436.1 | ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM-GOLGI INTERMEDIATE COMPARTMENT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004437.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004438.1 |
