Figure 7

Phylogenetic analysis of DNA polymerase sequences from different herpesvirus species identified with the "TGV-IYG" CODEHOP assay The phylogeny of DNA polymerase sequences (~53 amino acids in length) from thirty-six herpesviruses identified using the "TGV-IYG" assay (see Tables 2 and 3) and the corresponding sequences of six representative human herpesviruses (boxed) was determined using the neighbor joining method (Neighbor) applied to pairwise sequence distances (ProtDist) using the Phylip suite of programs [15]. Bootstrap scores (Seqboot) from 100 replicates are indicated and the consensus tree (Consense) is shown. The clustering of the alpha, beta and gamma herpesviruses, including the gamma-1 (Lymphocryptovirus) herpesviruses, and the RV1 and RV2 gamma-2 (Rhadinovirus) lineages are indicated.