The subject of this year’s top microscope photo in the 36th annual Nikon Small World competition looks more like neon suspension bridges or sailboats than what it really is: mosquito heart muscle magnified 100 times.
The image, which used flourescence technology to highlight different parts of the specimen, stood out as one of the most beautiful of the entries. And it also had scientific merit as part of the photographer’s research on how mosquitoes carry and spread disease.
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2nd Place
5-day old zebrafish head (20X), Confocal
Dr. Hideo Otsuna, University of Utah Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Salt Lake City, Utah
3rd Place
Zebrafish olfactory bulbs (250X), Confocal
Oliver Braubach, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
4th Place
Wasp nest (10X), Extended Depth of Field Stereomicroscopy
Riccardo Taiariol
La Spezia, SP, Italy
5th Place
Strelitzia reginae (bird of paradise) seed (10X) Darkfield
Viktor Sykora, Institute of Pathophysiology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic
9th Place
Ctenocephalides canis (flea) (20X) Fluorescence
Duane Harland, AgResearch Ltd.
Lincoln, New Zealand
10th Place
Crystallized soy sauce (16X), Reflected and Transmitted Light
Yanping Wang, Beijing Planetarium
Beijing, China
12th Place
Juvenile bivalve mollusc, Lima sp. (10X), Darkfield
Gregory Rouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
La Jolla, California
19th Place
Wistar rat retina outlining the retinal vessel network and associated communication channels (100X), Confocal
Cameron Johnson, The University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
