Affiliation:
1. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, Box 9102, Southborough, MA 01772-9102, USA
Abstract
γ–Herpesviruses can be found in most primates including Old World an New World monkeys. The γ–
herpesvirinae
are grouped into two classes: lymphocryptoviruses (γ
1
) and rhadinoviruses (γ
2
). The lymphocryptoviruses include Epstein–Barr virus, lymphocryptovirus of rhesus monkeys, and
Herpesvirus papio
of baboons. Rhadinoviruses that infect New World monkeys include
Herpesvirus saimiri
, whose natural host is the squirrel monkey, and
Herpesvirus ateles
, which infects spider monkeys. Rhadinoviruses that infect hominoids and Old World monkeys include Kaposi's sarcoma–associated herpesvirus, also known as HHV–8, and rhesus monkey rhadinovirus.
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology