To be (complete) or not to be- That is the question

We finally published our research article on the choice of regeneration in the invasive comb jelly. you can follow the PR, as well as a link to the paper here:

https://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/wundheilung-oder-neue-koerperteile-die-umwelt-entscheidet/

Here you can also find an interesting short movie on how we cut the larvae into half.  complete larvae has two tentacles and were bisected longitudinally through the esophageal plane while leaving the apical organ completely retained in one of the resulting halves (Bading et al. 2017).

and another movie that shows how half-animals look like. They try to move with just one tentacle: