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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000004487.1 | HOMEOBOX PROTEIN NKX |
| OFRAG00000004488.1 | GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004489.1 | MATRIX PROTEIN, PUTATIVE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004490.1 | SERINE-THREONINE PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000004491.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000004492.1 | 4-NITROPHENYLPHOSPHATASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004493.1 | RETICULOCALBIN |
| OFRAG00000004494.1 | BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000004494.2 | BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000004495.1 | NUDIX HYDROLASE, NUDC SUBFAMILY |
| OFRAG00000004496.1 | SH3 DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000004497.1 | HISTIDINE-RICH GLYCOPROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004498.1 | SPORE COAT PROTEIN SP85 |
| OFRAG00000004499.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004500.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL KINASE |
| OFRAG00000004501.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004502.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004503.1 | PREFOLDIN SUBUNIT 4 |
| OFRAG00000004504.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004505.1 | PEPTIDYL-GLYCINE ALPHA-AMIDATING MONOOXYGENASE |
| OFRAG00000004506.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004507.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004508.1 | MAJOR FACILITATOR SUPERFAMILY DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 10 |
| OFRAG00000004509.1 | CTX-RELATED TYPE I TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004510.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004511.1 | TYROSINE-PROTEIN KINASE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000004512.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004513.1 | METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000004514.1 | METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000004515.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004516.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004517.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004518.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000004519.1 | LYSINE-SPECIFIC DEMETHYLASE |
| OFRAG00000004519.2 | LYSINE-SPECIFIC DEMETHYLASE |
| OFRAG00000004520.1 | GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004521.1 | GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000004522.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004523.1 | NEPHROCYSTIN-4 |
| OFRAG00000004523.2 | NEPHROCYSTIN-4 |
| OFRAG00000004523.3 | NEPHROCYSTIN-4 |
| OFRAG00000004524.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE SUBUNIT P |
| OFRAG00000004525.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004526.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004527.1 | ABL INTERACTOR FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000004528.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR TFIID SUBUNIT 6 |
| OFRAG00000004529.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004530.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004531.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004532.1 | CHROMODOMAIN-HELICASE-DNA-BINDING PROTEIN 3-RELATED-RELATED |
