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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000004626.2 | PROTEIN O-LINKED-MANNOSE BETA-1,2-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE 1/ALPHA-1,3-MANNOSYL-GLYCOPROTEIN 2-BETA-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004627.1 | MESODERM DEVELOPMENT CANDIDATE 2 |
| OFRAG00000004628.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004629.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000004630.1 | G-PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR |
| OFRAG00000004631.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004632.1 | LOQUACIOUS, ISOFORM B |
| OFRAG00000004633.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004634.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004635.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004636.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004637.1 | UBIQUITIN LIGASE E3 ALPHA-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004638.1 | RNA-BINDING PROTEIN 8A |
| OFRAG00000004639.1 | APOPTOGENIC PROTEIN 1, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000004640.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004641.1 | TRNA (ADENINE(58)-N(1))-METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004642.1 | TATA BOX-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR RNA POLYMERASE I SUBUNIT A |
| OFRAG00000004643.1 | SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004643.2 | SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004644.1 | LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT-CONTAINING |
| OFRAG00000004645.1 | T-COMPLEX-ASSOCIATED-TESTIS-EXPRESSED 1/ DYNEIN LIGHT CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000004646.1 | L-ASPARAGINASE |
| OFRAG00000004647.1 | HEMOGLOBINASE FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000004648.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004649.1 | MITOCHONDRIAL 28S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S10 |
| OFRAG00000004650.1 | NISCHARIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004651.1 | REST COREPRESSOR COREST PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004652.1 | GUANYLATE BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004653.1 | WD REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN POP1 |
| OFRAG00000004654.1 | FALZ-RELATED BROMODOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEINS |
| OFRAG00000004655.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004656.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004657.1 | RIBOSOMAL RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004658.1 | RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS |
| OFRAG00000004659.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN INDUCED BY TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA |
| OFRAG00000004660.1 | TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000004661.1 | CONTACTIN 5 |
| OFRAG00000004662.1 | TESTIS-SPECIFIC Y-ENCODED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004663.1 | DRAB11-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004664.1 | COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 105 |
| OFRAG00000004665.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004666.1 | INTIMAL THICKNESS RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004667.1 | INNEXIN |
| OFRAG00000004668.1 | INNEXIN |
| OFRAG00000004669.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004670.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004671.1 | TGF-BETA FAMILY |
| OFRAG00000004672.1 | HOOK PROTEINS |
| OFRAG00000004673.1 | RRNA 2-O-METHYLTRANSFERASE FIBRILLARIN |
| OFRAG00000004674.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE SUBUNIT H |
