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Two Injured Comb Jellies Can Fuse into Single Entity, Scientists Discover


Two injured individuals of Mnemiopsis leidyi, a species of planktonic animals known as comb jellies or ctenophores, are capable of rapidly fusing into a single entity in which some physiological functions are integrated.

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