奇妙的微觀世界
Winners of the Nikon Small World Competition, showcasing photography taken through a light microscope.
圖片是使用光學顯微鏡拍攝的尼康“微觀世界”攝影比賽的獲獎作品。
Heiti Paves from Tallinn University won the competition with this 20X zoom picture of a Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) plant.
來自愛沙尼亞塔林大學的Heiti Paves憑藉這張20X焦距的擬南芥(生物學研究中常用的實驗材料)圖片奪得頭獎。
Second place: Gerd A. Guenther from Dusseldorf in Germany snapped the Sonchus asper (spiny sowthistle) flower stem section with 150X zoom. It is a common roadside weed in the U.S.
第二名:來自德國杜塞爾多夫的Gerd A. Guenther150X焦距的圖片: 一種美國路邊常見的花葉菜的莖部截面寫真。
Third place: Pedro Barrios-Perez, from Ottowa, Canada captured this wrinkled photoresist with 200X zoom. Photoresists are light-sensitive materials used to create patterned coating on surfaces in photoengraving.
第三名:來自加拿大渥太華的Pedro Barrios-Perez的200X寫真:出現皺褶的光致抗蝕劑。這是一種用於相片塗層的光敏物質。
Fourth place: James E. Hayden, from Philadelphia took this picture of an Anglerfish ovary with 4X zoom. The deep sea fish lures prey with a light.
第四名:來自費城的James E. Hayden4X焦距的寫真:一種以光線引誘獵物的深海魚的卵巢。
Fifth place: Bruno Vellutini, from Sao Paulo university in Brazil looked at the oral surface of a young seastar with a 40X zoom.
第五名:來自巴西聖保羅大學的Bruno Vellutini的40X寫真:一隻年輕海星的口部表面。
Sixth place: Havi Sarfaty, from Israel took this close-up of Discus fish scales with 20X zoom. They are native to the Amazon basin.
第六名:來自以色列的Havi Sarfaty20X近距離寫真:七彩魚的鱗片。這種魚生長在亞馬遜盆地。
Seventh place: Shirley Owens from Michigan State University captured the hair-like trichomes on Thunbergia alata (Black-eyed Susan vine) with 450X zoom. The yellow-flowered plant is a perennial climbing plant.
第七名:來自密歇根州立大學的Shirley Owens的450X寫真:黑眼花的髮狀香毛簇。這是一種開黃花的常青藤蔓植物。