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See the Best Microscopic Photographs From Nikon’s Small World Photography Contest

Nikon Small World 2015
Eye of a honey bee (Apis mellifera) covered in dandelion pollen at 120x magnification.Ralph Claus Grimm
Nikon Small World 2015
Mouse colon colonized with human microbiota at 63x magnification.Kristen Earle, Gabriel Billings, KC Huang and Justin Sonnenburg
Nikon Small World 2015
Intake of a humped bladderwort (Utricularia gibba), a freshwater carnivorous plant at 100x magnification.Dr. Igor Siwanowicz
Nikon Small World 2015
Lab-grown human mammary gland organoid at 100x magnification.Daniel H. Miller and Ethan S. Sokol
Nikon Small World 2015
Live imaging of perfused vasculature in a mouse brain with glioblastoma taken using the Optical Frequency Domain Imaging System. Dr. Giorgio Seano and Dr. Rakesh K. Jain
Nikon Small World 2015
Spore capsule of a moss (Bryum sp.)Henri Koskinen
Nikon Small World 2015
Starfish imaged using confocal microscopy at 10x magnification. Evan Darling
Nikon Small World 2015
Nerves and blood vessels in a mouse ear skin at 10x magnification.Dr. Tomoko Yamazaki
Nikon Small World 2015
Young buds of Arabidopsis (a flowering plant) at 40x magnification.Dr. Nathanael Prunet
Nikon Small World 2015
Clam shrimp (Cyzicus mexicanus), live specimen ,at 25x magnification.Ian Gardiner
Nikon Small World 2015
Fern sorus at varying levels of maturity at 20x magnification.Rogelio Moreno Gill
Nikon Small World 2015
Developing sea mullet (Mugil cephalus) embryos at 40x magnification.Hannah Sheppard-Brennand
Nikon Small World 2015
Tentacles of a carnivorous plant (Drosera sp.) at 20x magnification.Jose R. Almodovar
Nikon Small World 2015
Australian grass (Austrostipa nodosa) seed at 5x magnification.Viktor Sykora
Nikon Small World 2015
Anther of a flowering plant (Arabidopsis thaliana) at 20x magnification.Dr. Heiti Paves
Nikon Small World 2015
Feeding rotifers (Floscularia ringens) at 50x magnification. Charles Krebs
Nikon Small World 2015
Black witch-hazel (Trichodactylus crinitus) leaf producing crystals to defend against herbivores at 100x magnification.David Maitland
Nikon Small World 2015
Hairyback worm (Chaetonotus sp.) and algae (Micrasterias sp.) at 400x magnification. Roland Gross
Nikon Small World 2015
Planktonic larva of a horseshoe worm (phoronid) at 450x magnification. Dr. Richard R. Kirby
Nikon Small World 2015
Suction cups on the diving beetle (Dytiscus sp.) foreleg at 50x magnification.Frank Reiser

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