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Nikon Small World Microphotography Competition 

The Nikon Small World competition, now in its 36th year, is regarded as the leading forum for showcasing the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope, and it attracts entries from around the world. For over 30 years, Nikon has rewarded the world's best photomicrographers who make critically important scientific contributions to life sciences, bio-research and materials science.The pictures in this gallery are the winning images, chosen by the judges as the top entries . They were shot by a variety of amateur photographers, professionals and scientists.

1st Place: Jonas King Vanderbilt University, Department of Biological Sciences Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Anopheles gambiae (mosquito) heart (100x)

2nd Place: Dr Hideo Otsuna, University of Utah Medical Centre, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. 5-day old zebrafish head (20X)

3rd Place: Oliver Braubach, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Zebrafish olfactory bulbs (250X)

4th Place: Riccardo Taiariol, La Spezia, SP, Italy. Wasp nest (10X), Extended Depth of Field Stereomicroscopy

5th Place: Viktor Sykora, Institute of Pathophysiology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Strelitzia reginae (bird of paradise) seed (10X), Darkfield

6th Place: Dr John Huisman, Murdoch University, School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia. Martensia sp. (red seaweed), living specimen (40X), Brightfield

7th Place: Yongli Shan, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, Dallas, Texas, USA. Endothelial cell attached to synthetic microfibres, stained with microtubules, F-actin and nuclei (2500X), Fluorescence, Confocal

8th Place: Honorio Cocera-La Parra, Geology Museum, University of Valencia, Benetusser, Valencia, Spain. Cacoxenite (mineral) (18X), Reflected light

9th Place: Dr Duane Harland, AgResearch Ltd, Lincoln, New Zealand. Ctenocephalides canis (flea) (20X), Fluorescence

10th Place: Yanping Wang, Beijing Planetarium, Beijing, China. Crystallised soy sauce (16X), Reflected and Transmitted Light

11th Place: Dr Paul D Andrews, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK. Telophase HeLa (cancer) cells expressing Aurora B-EGFP (green) (100X), Deconvolution

12th Place: Dr Gregory Rouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA. Juvenile bivalve mollusc, Lima sp. (10X), Darkfield

13th Place: James Nicholson, NOAA NOS NCCOS Coral Culture and Collaborative Research Facility, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Orange Fungia (mushroom coral), live specimen (166X), Fluorescence

14th Place: Dr Stephen Lowry, University of Ulster, Portstewart, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK. Spiral vessels from banana plant stem (32X), Polarized light

15th Place: Dr Ralf Wagner, Düsseldorf, Germany. Divaricatic acid from Evernia divaricata (lichen), recrystallised from acetone (10X), Polarised light

16th Place: Dr Robert Markus, Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary. Mirabilis jalapa (four o'clock flower) stigma with pollen (100X), Epifluorescence and 3D reconstruction

17th Place: Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography, Issaquah, Washington, USA. Ichneumon wasp compound eye and antenna base (40X), Reflected (Episcopic) Light Illumination

18th Place: Gerd Guenther, Düsseldorf, NRW, Germany. Soap film (150X), Incident Brightfield

19th Place: Cameron Johnson, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. Wistar rat retina outlining the retinal vessel network and associated communication channels (100X), Confocal

20th Place: Dr John Hart, Hart3D Films and Dept Atmospheric and Oceanic Sci. Univ. Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Crystallised melt of sulphur and acetanilide (10X), Transmitted Light, Crossed Polars