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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000004675.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004676.1 | BROMODOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 8 |
| OFRAG00000004677.1 | BICOID-INTERACTING PROTEIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004677.2 | BICOID-INTERACTING PROTEIN RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004678.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000004679.1 | GANGLIOSIDE INDUCED DIFFERENTIATION ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004679.2 | GANGLIOSIDE INDUCED DIFFERENTIATION ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004680.1 | KERATINOCYTE PROLINE-RICH PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004681.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004682.1 | SODIUM/HYDROGEN EXCHANGER |
| OFRAG00000004683.1 | SYNAPTOBREVIN FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000004683.2 | SYNAPTOBREVIN FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000004684.1 | F-BOX ONLY PROTEIN 42 |
| OFRAG00000004685.1 | CYTOCHROME B-C1 COMPLEX SUBUNIT RIESKE, MITOCHONDRIAL |
| OFRAG00000004686.1 | PROTEIN C8ORF37 |
| OFRAG00000004687.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 6 |
| OFRAG00000004688.1 | NF-KAPPA B ACTIVATING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004688.2 | NF-KAPPA B ACTIVATING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004689.1 | MDM2-BINDING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004690.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE AND COILED-COIL DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 4 TMCO4 |
| OFRAG00000004691.1 | GROUP II PYRIDOXAL-5-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE |
| OFRAG00000004692.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004693.1 | ZINC FINGER PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004694.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000004694.2 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000004694.3 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
| OFRAG00000004695.1 | BARDET-BIEDL SYNDROME 7 PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004696.1 | ASTEROID PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004696.2 | ASTEROID PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004697.1 | WD REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN 97 |
| OFRAG00000004698.1 | FARNESYL-DIPHOSPHATE FARNESYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004699.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004700.1 | HECT DOMAIN UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000004701.1 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004702.1 | BCDNA.GH03377 |
| OFRAG00000004703.1 | RNA EXONUCLEASE REXO1 / RECO3 FAMILY MEMBER-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004704.1 | LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR CLASS A DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000004705.1 | SYNTAXIN |
| OFRAG00000004706.1 | CYTOPLASMIC TRNA 2-THIOLATION PROTEIN 2 |
| OFRAG00000004707.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004708.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004709.1 | UBIQUITIN CARBOXYL-TERMINAL HYDROLASE |
| OFRAG00000004710.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004711.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004712.1 | HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70KDA |
| OFRAG00000004713.1 | GALACTOSE-3-O-SULFOTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004714.1 | GALACTOSE-3-O-SULFOTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004715.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004716.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004717.1 |
