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 |
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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 |
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- | 285Mb | Scaffold | 2023 | - | HARVARD UNIVERSITY | PRJNA283630 | 80.10% | 14,203 |
Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
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Distinct genomic routes underlie transitions to specialised symbiotic lifestyles in deep-sea annelid worms | nature communications | 37198188 |
Gene ID | Description |
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OFRAG00000004718.1 | |
OFRAG00000004719.1 | |
OFRAG00000004720.1 | |
OFRAG00000004721.1 | |
OFRAG00000004722.1 | |
OFRAG00000004723.1 | GALACTOSE-3-O-SULFOTRANSFERASE |
OFRAG00000004724.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
OFRAG00000004725.1 | 60S RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN L22 |
OFRAG00000004726.1 | AP COMPLEX SUBUNIT MU |
OFRAG00000004727.1 | SULFATASE MODIFYING FACTOR 1, 2 |
OFRAG00000004728.1 | EXPRESSED PROTEIN |
OFRAG00000004729.1 | MUCIN 4-RELATED |
OFRAG00000004730.1 | PROTEIN CBG17025 |
OFRAG00000004731.1 | MUCIN 4-RELATED |
OFRAG00000004732.1 | |
OFRAG00000004733.1 | |
OFRAG00000004734.1 | |
OFRAG00000004735.1 | CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE |
OFRAG00000004736.1 | |
OFRAG00000004737.1 | |
OFRAG00000004738.1 | RAD, GEM/KIR FAMILY MEMBER 2, ISOFORM C |
OFRAG00000004739.1 | |
OFRAG00000004740.1 | |
OFRAG00000004741.1 | POTASSIUM CHANNEL TETRAMERIZATION DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
OFRAG00000004742.1 | |
OFRAG00000004743.1 | RAS-RELATED PROTEIN RAB |
OFRAG00000004744.1 | DUAL SPECIFICITY PROTEIN KINASE |
OFRAG00000004745.1 | PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE-BINDING PROTEIN |
OFRAG00000004746.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
OFRAG00000004747.1 | YEAST SPT2-RELATED |
OFRAG00000004748.1 | ZINC FINGER AND BTB DOMAIN-CONTAINING |
OFRAG00000004749.1 | ATM INTERACTOR |
OFRAG00000004750.1 | CALCIUM-TRANSPORTING ATPASE |
OFRAG00000004751.1 | |
OFRAG00000004752.1 | |
OFRAG00000004753.1 | SPERMIDINE/SPERMINE SYNTHASE |
OFRAG00000004754.1 | ER MEMBRANE PROTEIN COMPLEX |
OFRAG00000004755.1 | BETA-CATENIN-LIKE PROTEIN 1 NUCLEAR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN |
OFRAG00000004756.1 | |
OFRAG00000004757.1 | |
OFRAG00000004758.1 | |
OFRAG00000004759.1 | - |
OFRAG00000004760.1 | ENDONUCLEASE/EXONUCLEASE/PHOSPHATASE FAMILY DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN 1 |
OFRAG00000004761.1 | |
OFRAG00000004762.1 | UNCHARACTERIZED |
OFRAG00000004763.1 | AGAP000281-PA |
OFRAG00000004764.1 | REGULATOR OF G-PROTEIN SIGNALING 3 |
OFRAG00000004765.1 | LECITHIN-CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE-RELATED |
OFRAG00000004766.1 | MADF DOMAIN TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR |
OFRAG00000004767.1 | LECITHIN-CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE-RELATED |