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The Guardian - UK
Science

Life in close-up: photomicrography competition winners - in pictures

Nikon Small World: Chaetoceros debilis (marine diatom), a colonial plankton organismDifferent
1st: Chaetoceros debilis (marine diatom), a plankton organism that lives in colonies

Wim van Egmond
Micropolitan Museum Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands
A freelance photographer and artist with a passion for aquatic microorganisms, Egmond captured the detail of this fragile helical chain in three-dimensions by using a 'partial image stack' of more than 90 pictures
Photograph: Wim van Egmond
Nikon Small World: Chrysemys picta (painted turtle) retinaDifferential Interference Contrast
2nd: Retina of a painted turtle (Chrysemys picta)

Dr Joseph Corbo
Washington University School of Medicine St Louis, Missouri, USA
Photograph: Dr Joseph Corbo
Nikon Small World: Marine worm
3rd: Marine worm

Dr Alvaro Esteves Migotto
Universidade de São Paulo, Centro de Biologia Marinha São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Photograph: Dr Alvaro Esteves Migotto
Nikon Small World: Paramecium sp. showing the nucleus, mouth and water expulsion vacuolesDiff
4th: A paramecium, showing the nucleus, mouth and water expulsion vacuoles

Rogelio Moreno Gill
Panama City, Panama
Photograph: Rogelio Moreno Gill
Nikon Small World: Adhesive pad on a foreleg of Coccinella septempunctata (ladybird beetle)
Adhesive pad on the foreleg of a ladybird beetle Coccinella septempunctata

Dr Jan Michels
Institute of Zoology, Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Kiel, Germany
Photograph: Dr Jan Michels
Nikon Small World: Hippocampal neuron receiving excitatory contacts.Fluorescence and Confocal
A neuron in the hippocampus of the brain receiving excitatory inputs

Dr Kieran Boyle
University of Glasgow, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology Scotland, UK
Photograph: Dr Kieran Boyle
Nikon Small World: Chamaeleo calyptratus (veiled chameleon), embryo showing cartilage (blue) a
Embryo of a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) showing cartilage (blue) and bone (red)

Dorit Hockman
University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK
Photograph: Dorit Hockman
Nikon Small World: Macrobrachium shrimp (ghost shrimp) eye
Stereomicroscopy
140X
The eye of a ghost shrimp (Macrobrachium)

Vitoria Tobias Santos
 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rodrigo Evo Devo Group

Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Photograph: Vitoria Tobias Santos
Nikon Small World: Mouse vertebra section
Focus Stacking
200X
Section through a mouse vertebra

Dr Michael Paul Nelson and Samantha Smith

Department of Pathology/Neuropathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham USA


Photograph: Dr Michael Paul Nelson and Samantha Smith
Nikon Small World: Pityohyphantes phrygianus (sheet weaver spider) with a parasitic wasp larva
Sheet weaver spider (Pityohyphantes phrygianus) with a parasitic wasp larva on its abdomen

Geir Drange

Asker, Norway

Photograph: Geir Drange
Nikon Small World: Peripheral nerves in E11.5 mouse embryo
Confocal
5X
Peripheral nerves in a mouse embryo

Zhong Hua

Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Photograph: Zhong Hua
Nikon Small World: Nerve and muscle thin section
Brightfield, Image Stacking
40X
A thin section through nerve and muscle


Dr David Ward

dgward.com 
Oakdale, California, USA


Photograph: David G Ward
Nikon Small World: Insect wrapped in spider web
Confocal, Autofluorescence, Image Stacking
85X
An insect wrapped in spider silk

Mark A Sanders

University Imaging Centers, University of Minnesota
 Minneapolis, USA

Photograph: Mark A Sanders
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