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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000000001.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000002.1 | RAS, DI-RAS, AND RHEB FAMILY MEMBERS OF SMALL GTPASE SUPERFAMILY |
| OFRAG00000000003.1 | MEDIATOR OF RNA POLYMERASE II TRANSCRIPTION SUBUNIT 1 |
| OFRAG00000000004.1 | OUTER DENSE FIBER OF SPERM TAILS 2 |
| OFRAG00000000005.1 | GUANYLATE KINASE-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000006.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000007.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN ADIPOCYTE-ASSOCIATED 1 |
| OFRAG00000000008.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000009.1 | SPHINGOSINE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000000010.1 | VESICLE-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000011.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000011.2 | |
| OFRAG00000000012.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000013.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000014.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000015.1 | SYNAPTOTAGMIN |
| OFRAG00000000016.1 | LATE SECRETORY PATHWAY PROTEIN AVL9-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000017.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000018.1 | LATE SECRETORY PATHWAY PROTEIN AVL9-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000019.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000020.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000021.1 | FORKHEAD BOX P, ISOFORM C |
| OFRAG00000000022.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000023.1 | FORKHEAD BOX P, ISOFORM C |
| OFRAG00000000024.1 | BONUS, ISOFORM C-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000025.1 | FLAVIN MONOAMINE OXIDASE |
| OFRAG00000000026.1 | WD40 REPEAT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000000027.1 | DIVALENT CATION TRANSPORTER SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 41 |
| OFRAG00000000028.1 | TRNA-SPLICING ENDONUCLEASE SUBUNIT SEN54 |
| OFRAG00000000029.1 | G PROTEIN-COUPLED RECEPTOR KINASE INTERACTING ARFGAP |
| OFRAG00000000030.1 | FMRFAMIDE RECEPTOR-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000031.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000032.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000033.1 | ENVOPLAKIN |
| OFRAG00000000034.1 | HL07962P-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000000035.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000036.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000037.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000038.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000039.1 | CADHERIN-87A |
| OFRAG00000000040.1 | KICSTOR COMPLEX PROTEIN C12ORF66 |
| OFRAG00000000041.1 | MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE |
| OFRAG00000000042.1 | DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE I SUBUNIT RPA49 |
| OFRAG00000000043.1 | SCAVENGER RECEPTOR CLASS B TYPE-1 SR-B1 |
| OFRAG00000000044.1 | LD25575P |
| OFRAG00000000045.1 | |
| OFRAG00000000046.1 | KATANIN P80 SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000000047.1 | KATANIN P80 SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000000048.1 | TIP120 |
| OFRAG00000000049.1 |
