Micrographs of Nikon Small World 2013 Bashny.Net

Present to you the winners of the annual contest micrographs Nikon Small World 2013: a feather for twentieth place. The winner of the contest. 250-fold increase in the colonial planktonic organisms Chaetoceros debilis. Cells form a spiral chain. Wim van Egmond





Painted turtle or tortoise decorated (lat. Chrysemys picta) - the only member of the genus Chrysemys of the American family of freshwater turtles, the most common turtle in North America. This picture was taken at a magnification of 400 times. Joseph Corbo



20-fold increase in marine worm. Spiny ancestors of modern marine worms were among the first organisms that inhabited the earth over 500 million years ago. Alvaro Estevez Migotto



40-fold increase in ciliate-shoes. The organism was named for the constant body shape resembling sole shoes. Rogelio Moreno Gil



Hippocampal neurons. Hippocampus (from the ancient Greek. Ἱππόκαμπος - seahorse) - part of the limbic system of the brain. Involved in the mechanisms of emotion, memory consolidation (ie the transition to long-term memory). This picture was taken at a magnification of 63 times. Kieran Boyle



Embryo Veiled chameleon. Red areas - cartilage, blue - bone. Dorit Hakman



20-fold increase in leg ladybird Coccinella septempunctata. Ian Migels



50-fold increase in hepatic sheet Barbilophozia Sp (moss). Magdalena Turzanska



Insect wrapped in spider webs. Increase by 50 times. Mark Sanders



10-fold increase in the preserved dinosaur bones. Ted Kinsman



140 fold increase in the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium shrimp. Vitoria Tobias Santos



200-fold increase in silica. Pedro Barrios-Perez



200-fold increase in mouse spine. Michael Paul Nelson and Samantha Smith



Spherical nerves in mouse embryos. Increase by 5 times. Zhong Gua



Ascomycete fungus Podospora anserina. Image 630 times. Christian Shekguber



5-fold increase weaver spider on which the wasp larva. So wasps searching for spiders, which hunt to provide food for their larvae. Gere Drang



Pyramidal neurons and their dendrites visualized in the visual cortex of the mouse brain. Increase 40 times. Alexander William Moreau



100-fold increase in the ringed larvae. Christian Sardet



Thin section of human muscles and nerves. David Ward



Transport of sugar molecules in fat cells. James Barchfild



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