Nikon's 20 Top Microscopic Photos of 2010

Mosquito Heart: Jonas King: Vanderbilt University, Department of Biological Sciences, Nashville, Tennessee

5-Day-Old Zebrafish head: Dr. Hideo Otsuna, University of Utah Medical Center, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Salt Lake City, Utah

Zebrafish Olfactory Bulbs: Oliver Braubach, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Wasp Nest: Riccardo Taiariol, La Spezia, SP, Italy

Bird of Paradise Seed: Viktor Sykora, Institute of Pathophysiology, First Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Red Seaweed: Dr. John Huisman, Murdoch University School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

Endothelial Cell Attached to Synthetic Microfibers, Stained with Microtubules, F-actin and Nuclei: Yongli Shan, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

Cacoxenite: Honorio Cocera-La Parra, Geology Museum, University of Valencia, Benetusser, Valencia, Spain

Flea: Dr. Duane Harland, AgResearch Ltd., Lincoln, New Zealand

Crystallized Soy Sauce: Yanping Wang. Beijing Planetarium, Beijing, China

Telophase HeLa (Cancer) Cells: Dr. Paul D. Andrews, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland

Juvenile Bivalve Mollusc: Dr. Gregory Rouse, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

Orange Fungia (mushroom coral). James Nicholson: NOAA NOS NCCOS Coral Culture and Collaborative Research Facility, Charleston, South Carolina

Spiral Vessels from Banana Plant: Dr. Stephen Lowry, University of Ulster, Portstewart, Co. Londonderry

Divaricatic Acid from Evernia divaricata (lichen), Recrystallized from Acetone: Dr. Ralf Wagner, D

Mirabilis Jalapa (Four o' Clock Flower) Stigma with Pollen, Dr. Robert Markus Institute of Genetics, Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

Ichneumon Wasp Compound Eye and Antenna Base: Charles Krebs, Charles Krebs Photography, Issaquah, Washington

Soap Film: Gerd Guenther, D

Wistar Rat Retina Outlining the Retinal Vessel Network and Associated Communication Channels: Cameron Johnson, The University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand

Crystallized Melt of Sulfur and Acetanilide: Dr. John Hart, Hart3D Films and Dept. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sci. Univ. Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado