Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/GloFish
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- Reason
- This picture shows an amazing example of genetic manipulation. The picture is high resolution and meets the criteria of a featured picture. Genetic manipulation is a very important topic both in the scientific community and in the popular press.
- Proposed caption
- These zebrafish (Zebra danio) have been genetically modified so that they produce green, orange, or red fluorescent proteins which impart a dramatic neon color to the fish. Although not originally developed for the ornamental fish trade, they are the first genetically modified animals to become publicly available as a pet.
- Articles this image appears in
- Recombinant DNA, Genetically modified organism, and GloFish
- Creator
- www.glofish.com
- Support as nominator Jeff Dahl 04:53, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose low quality, reproducable and the white parts are really bright (blown highlights i think they are called???) --Childzy ¤ Talk 10:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose Uncorrectable quality issues. Photographing subjects in water is tricky as the water and glass your shooting through will diffuse the light and give you a loss of contrast, bluring and those kinds of white blow outs, Don't be put off though, a pic of a GFP fish would be nice for more than a few of the science articles. WikipedianProlific(Talk) 11:08, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose, per WikipedianProlific. Unschool 01:13, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
- Oppose per above. Curious subject, but the quality is under par I'm afraid. -- Chris B • talk • contribs 19:52, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Not promoted MER-C 02:56, 9 September 2007 (UTC)