An inverted repeat borders a fivefold amplification in satellite DNA.

One variant of a complex satellite DNA of the Bermuda land crab is significantly longer than the average repeat unit of the satellite. The extra DNA in the variant is accounted for by a fivefold tandem amplification of a 0.142-kilobase sequence. The amplified sequence is bounded by a tetranucleotide inverted repeat; the upstream arm of the inverted repeat is missing from two other variants of the satellite. The latter variants contain only one copy of a sequence that is closely related to the amplified sequence. By contrast, in several satellite DNA's of other organisms, extra DNA is inserted.