Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Parapoxvirus

Electron microscope reconstruction of a Parapoxvirus virus

Original - 3D tomographical reconstruction of a Parapoxvirus virus, by TEM, as obtained from a sheep's oral mucosa

Reason: Image is from an open access journal publication, showing how transmission electron microscopy can be used in conjunction with tomography to create 3D images of nanoscale objects, essential to sciences such as virology for the understanding of disease vectors.
Articles this image appears in: Transmission electron microscopy
Creator: Jan Mast and Lien Demeestere, EM-unit, CODA-CERVA; Published in [1].

Support as nominator --User A1 (talk) 12:54, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
oppose - A neat graphic, but I think a standard thin slice image would be more illustrative of TEM uses, and as an illustration of a parapoxvirus, the geometry looks a little dubious to me. de Bivort 19:22, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
support, though it's a somewhat odd presentation, I think it could be useful. Could use more explanation in the caption, for instance, mentioning the debris around it is not part of the virus. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:50, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

How about:

3D tomographical reconstruction of a Parapoxvirus by TEM, as obtained from a sheep's oral mucosa. The virus sample was dispersed onto a support film and stained with uranyl acetate, in order to selectively bind to the viral protein; the rectangular background is excess stain from the cropped 3D section.

Works! Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 14:01, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

support GerardM (talk) 17:49, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No consensus=>Not promoted ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 04:46, 25 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]