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BMC Plant Biology BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Evolution of ribosomal DNA-derived satellite repeat in tomato genome Sung-Hwan Jo?1,3,7, Dal-Hoe Koo?1,6, Jihyun F Kim2,3, Cheol-Goo Hur1,7, Sanghyeob Lee1,5, Tae-jin Yang4, Suk-Yoon Kwon1 and Doil Choi*4 Address: 1Plant Genome Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 305-806, Korea, 2Systems Microbiology Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 305-806, Korea, 3Department of Functional Genomics, University of Science Technology, Daejeon 305-333, Korea, 4Department of Plant Science and Plant Genomics and Breeding Institute, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea, 5Dongbu Advanced Research Institute, Dongbu HiTek Co, Ltd Daejeon 305-708, Korea, 6Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA and 7Omics and Integration Research Center, KRIBB, Daejeon, 305-806, Korea Email: Sung-Hwan Jo - shjo@kribb.re.kr; Dal-Hoe Koo - dkoo@; Jihyun F Kim - jfk@kribb.re.kr; Cheol-Goo Hur - hurlee@kribb.re.kr; Sanghyeob Lee - doil@snu.ac.kr; Tae-jin Yang - tjyang@snu.ac.kr; Suk-Yoon Kwon - sykwon@kribb.re.kr; Doil Choi* - doil@snu.ac.kr * Corresponding author ?Equal contributors Published: 8 April 2009 Received: 25 November 2008 Accepted: 8 April 2009 BMC Plant Biology 2009, 9:42 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-9-42 This article is available from: /1471-2229/9/42 ? 2009 Jo et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Tandemly repeated DNA, also called as satellite DNA, is a common feature of eukaryotic genomes. Satellite repeats can expand and contract dramatically, which may cause genome size variation among genetically-related species. However, the origin and expansion mechanism are not clear yet and nee