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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000013224.1 | WD REPEAT-CONTAINING PROTEIN 61 |
| OFRAG00000013225.1 | GTP-BINDING PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000013226.1 | RETICULOCALBIN |
| OFRAG00000013227.1 | SLEI FAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000013228.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013229.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000013230.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000013231.1 | MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE |
| OFRAG00000013232.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013233.1 | WD REPEAT PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000013234.1 | SERINE/ARGININE-RICH SPLICING FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000013234.2 | SERINE/ARGININE-RICH SPLICING FACTOR |
| OFRAG00000013235.1 | LD24721P |
| OFRAG00000013236.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013237.1 | SMALL CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000013238.1 | CTCL TUMOR ANTIGEN HD-CL-01 |
| OFRAG00000013239.1 | DUF814-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000013240.1 | EGF-LIKE-DOMAIN, MULTIPLE 7, 8 |
| OFRAG00000013241.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013242.1 | GUANYLYL CYCLASE |
| OFRAG00000013243.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013244.1 | EG:EG0003.4 PROTEIN-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000013245.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000013246.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013247.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013248.1 | ABC TRANSPORTER B FAMILY |
| OFRAG00000013249.1 | ABC TRANSPORTER B FAMILY |
| OFRAG00000013250.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE SUB-FAMILY B |
| OFRAG00000013251.1 | ATP-BINDING CASSETTE SUB-FAMILY B |
| OFRAG00000013252.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013253.1 | TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION FACTOR IIA SUBUNIT 2 |
| OFRAG00000013254.1 | THREONINE-TRNA LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000013254.2 | THREONINE-TRNA LIGASE |
| OFRAG00000013255.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013256.1 | TROPOMYOSIN |
| OFRAG00000013257.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013258.1 | TROPOMYOSIN |
| OFRAG00000013259.1 | TROPOMYOSIN |
| OFRAG00000013260.1 | TRNA-PSEUDOURIDINE SYNTHASE |
| OFRAG00000013261.1 | WNT RELATED |
| OFRAG00000013262.1 | SULFOTRANSFERASE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000013263.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013264.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013265.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013266.1 | UTP15 U3 SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 15 FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000013267.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013268.1 | |
| OFRAG00000013269.1 | AT-RICH INTERACTIVE DOMAIN-CONTAINING PROTEIN ARID DOMAIN- CONTAINING PROTEIN DEAD RINGER PROTEIN B-CELL REGULATOR OF IGH TRANSCRIPTION BRIGHT |
| OFRAG00000013270.1 | - |
| OFRAG00000013271.1 |
