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Genetic diversity and molecular evolution of human and non-human primate Gammaherpesvirinae.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2010
Lacoste Vincent, Lavergne Anne, de Thoisy Benoît, Pouliquen Jean-François, Gessain Antoine
Abstract excerpt
The Gammaherpesvirinae sub-family is divided into two genera: Lymphocryptovirus and Rhadinovirus. Until the middle of the 1990s, the Rhadinovirus genus was only represented by Herpesvirus saimiri and Herpesvirus ateles, which infect New World monkey species. Until the year 2000, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the human prototype of the Lymphocryptovirus, and simian homologues had only been detected in humans and Old...
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