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 |
|---|---|
| OFRAG00000004195.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004196.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004197.1 | O-ACYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004198.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004199.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004200.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004201.1 | NEUROTRANSMITTER GATED ION CHANNEL |
| OFRAG00000004202.1 | VITELLOGENIN RECEPTOR-LIKE PROTEIN-RELATED-RELATED |
| OFRAG00000004203.1 | DENTIN SIALOPHOSPHOPROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004204.1 | SPLICING FACTOR 3A SUBUNIT 2 |
| OFRAG00000004205.1 | TECTONIC FAMILY MEMBER |
| OFRAG00000004206.1 | EUKARYOTIC TRANSLATION INITIATION FACTOR 4 GAMMA |
| OFRAG00000004207.1 | UPF0602 PROTEIN C4ORF47 |
| OFRAG00000004208.1 | DOUBLE-STRAND BREAK REPAIR PROTEIN MRE11 |
| OFRAG00000004209.1 | DYNEIN HEAVY CHAIN |
| OFRAG00000004210.1 | GOLGI REASSEMBLY STACKING PROTEIN GRASP |
| OFRAG00000004210.2 | GOLGI REASSEMBLY STACKING PROTEIN GRASP |
| OFRAG00000004211.1 | RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004212.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004213.1 | GAMMA-SECRETASE SUBUNIT PEN-2 |
| OFRAG00000004214.1 | GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000004215.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004216.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004217.1 | TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004218.1 | GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT |
| OFRAG00000004219.1 | PROKARYOTIC DNA TOPOISOMERASE |
| OFRAG00000004220.1 | ALPHA-MANNOSIDE BETA-1,6-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE |
| OFRAG00000004221.1 | MAP/MICROTUBULE AFFINITY-REGULATING KINASE |
| OFRAG00000004222.1 | ENOS INTERACTING PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004223.1 | MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN XMAP215 |
| OFRAG00000004224.1 | CHAPERONIN |
| OFRAG00000004225.1 | SAM-DEPENDENT METHYLTRANSFERASE SUPERFAMILY PROTEIN |
| OFRAG00000004226.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004227.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004228.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004229.1 | CHOLINE/ETHANOALAMINE KINASE |
| OFRAG00000004230.1 | LIPID PHOSPHATE PHOSPHATASE |
| OFRAG00000004231.1 | LIPID PHOSPHATE PHOSPHATASE |
| OFRAG00000004232.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004233.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004234.1 | ACYL-COA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000004235.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004236.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004237.1 | ACYL-COA SYNTHETASE |
| OFRAG00000004238.1 | |
| OFRAG00000004239.1 | DNAJ HOMOLOG SUBFAMILY B MEMBER 11 |
| OFRAG00000004240.1 | MICROSPHERULE PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000004240.2 | MICROSPHERULE PROTEIN 1 |
| OFRAG00000004241.1 | CILIA- AND FLAGELLA-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 77 |
| OFRAG00000004242.1 | BLR2807 PROTEIN |
