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published December 28, 2006

Mouse colon

Cyanobacteria and a diatom

Aquatic worm

Spiny headed mat-rush

Transgenic nicotiana

Rat retina

Clematis seed

Green algae

Moth wing

Sapphire substrate

Shrimp pupil

Annelid worm

Seaweed

Fruit fly larvae

Diatom

Copepod

Protozoan

Liquid crystals

<p>Cell nuclei of the mouse colon (740x) Two-Photon fluorescence microscopy Dr. Paul L. Appleton Division of Cell and Developmental Biology University of Dundee Dundee, UK</p>

<p>Nostoc cyanobacteria and diploneis diatom (100x) Bright-field microscopy Raul M. Gonzalez Raul Gonzalez Estudio Mexico City, Mexico</p>

<p>Spirorbis sp. (aquatic worm) (100x) Confocal microscopy Jens R??chel Department of Zoology University of Osnabruck Osnabruck, Germany</p>

<p>Lomandra longifolia (Spiny-headed mat rush) (100x) Confocal (3-laser) microscopy Charles J. Kazilek The Paper Project / W.M. Keck Bioimaging Laboratory Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, USA</p>

<p>Transgenic Nicotiana benthamiana plant (10x) Fluorescence microscopy Dr. Heiti Paves Tallinn University of Technology Tallinn, Estonia</p>

<p>Fluorescing filamentous green alga (60x) Confocal microscopy Dr. Carlos A. Munoz Department of Biology University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Mayaguez, Puerto Rico</p>

<p>Seed of a Clematis vitalba shrub (also known as traveller's joy and old man's beard) (2x) Dark-field microscopy Viktor Sykora Institute of Pathophysiology First Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague, Czech Republic</p>

<p>Fluorescing filamentous green alga (60x) Confocal microscopy Dr. Carlos A. Munoz Department of Biology University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Mayaguez, Puerto Rico</p>

<p>Wing scales of a Urania ripheus (Sunset Moth) (6.25x) Reflected-light microscopy Charles B. Krebs Charles Krebs Photography Issaquah, Washington, USA</p>

<p>Two m-plane sapphire substrates (100x) Dark-field microscopy Melissa K. Santala Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of California Berkeley, California, USA</p>

<p>Pupil of a Macrobrachium amazonicum (freshwater shrimp) (20x) Stereomicroscopy Alex H. Griman, Alex Kawazaki Photography, Sao Paulo, Brazil</p>

<p>7-day-old Enchytraeus coronatus (annelid worm) embryo (250x) Confocal microscopy Annette Bergter Department of Zoology University of Osnabruck Osnabruck, Germany</p>

<p>Microdictyon umbilicatum (seaweed) (20x) Bright-field microscopy Dr. John M. Huisman Murdoch University Murdoch, Australia</p>

<p>Anterior spiracles (respiratory openings) of a fruit fly larvae (1500x) Fluorescence microscopy Albert Tousson and Tomek Szul Department of Cell Biology The University of Alabama at Birmingham</p>

<p>Anterior spiracles (respiratory openings) of a fruit fly larvae (1500x) Fluorescence microscopy Albert Tousson and Tomek Szul Department of Cell Biology The University of Alabama at Birmingham</p>

<p>Diatom (100x) Heine phase-contrast microscopy Harold Taylor Kensworth, UK</p>

<p>Copepod lophoura (a crustacean) (4x) Dark-field and top-lighting microscopy Harold Taylor Kensworth, UK</p>

<p>Condylostoma sp. (a protozoan) (100x) Bright-field microscopy Raul M. Gonzalez Raul Gonzalez Estudio Mexico City, Mexico</p>

<p>Thin nematic film (liquid crystals) (200x) Polarized-light microscopy Dr. Oleg D. Lavrentovich Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University Kent, Ohio, USA</p>

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