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A little green fern with massive green potential. This will be the first fern to have it's genome sequenced. It is symbiotic with Nostoc (cyanobacteria) and is a nitrogen fixer.   For more information about this fern, please visit www.azollagenome.net  or contact:  www.pryerlab.net Kathleen Pryer: pryer@duke.edu  /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////   Please download and use these open source images for your own purposes. If you do, please reference Macroscopic Solutions.     Photography information: All of the images in this database were captured with the Macropod.   The Macropod is a rigid, portable photomacrography system, which allows the user to make razor sharp, fully focused photographs of small sized specimens at 18 to 26-megapixel resolution. It overcomes the extreme Depth of Field (DOF) limitations inherent in optics designed to image smaller specimens. Normally, lenses designed for macro will only render a very small fraction of the depth of targeted specimen in sharp focus at any one exposure. The Macropod allows the user to select and make multiple exposures in precise increments along the Z-axis (depth) such that each exposure’s area of sharp focus overlaps with the previous and next exposure. These source images are then transferred to a computer and merged by an image-stacking program. Zerene Stacker is used to find and stitch together only the focused pixels from each exposure into one image. The Macropod integrates industry-leading components in a novel and elegant way to achieve these results.    Contact information:   Dan Saftner  daniel@macroscopicsolutions.com 724 825 9426   Mark Smith  mark@macroscopicsolutions.com 410 258 6144  /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////