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Indeed, the three yet known \u03b32-herpesviruses in chimpanzees (PanRHV1a\/PtRV1, PanRHV1b) and gorillas (GorRHV1) belong to the RV1 group. To investigate the putative existence of a new RV2 <jats:italic>Rhadinovirus<\/jats:italic> in chimpanzees and gorillas we have used the degenerate consensus primer PCR strategy for the Herpesviral DNA polymerase gene on 40 wild-caught animals. This study led to the discovery, in common chimpanzees, of a novel \u03b32-herpesvirus belonging to the RV2 genogroup, termed Pan Rhadino-herpesvirus 2 (PanRHV2). Use of specific primers and internal oligonucleotide probes demonstrated the presence of this novel \u03b32-herpesvirus in three wild-caught animals. Comparison of a 1092-bp fragment of the DNA polymerase obtained from these three animals of the<jats:italic>Pan troglodytes troglodytes<\/jats:italic> subspecies, one from Gabon and the two others from Cameroon, revealed &lt;1% of nucleotide divergence. The geographic colocalization as well as the phylogenetic \u201crelationship\u201d of the human and simian \u03b32-herpesviruses support the model according to which herpesviruses have diversified from a common ancestor in a manner mediating cospeciation of herpesviruses with their host species. By demonstrating the existence of two distinct<jats:italic>Rhadinovirus<\/jats:italic> lineages in common chimpanzees, our finding indicates the possible existence of a novel human \u03b32-herpesvirus belonging to the RV2 genogroup.<\/jats:p><jats:p>[The Herpesviral DNA polymerase sequence data determined herein have been deposited at the GenBank database under accession nos. <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"AF290601\" ext-link-type=\"gen\" xlink:type=\"simple\">AF290601<\/jats:ext-link>, <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"AF346488\" ext-link-type=\"gen\" xlink:type=\"simple\">AF346488<\/jats:ext-link>, <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"AF346489\" ext-link-type=\"gen\" xlink:type=\"simple\">AF346489<\/jats:ext-link>, and<jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"AF346490\" ext-link-type=\"gen\" xlink:type=\"simple\">AF346490<\/jats:ext-link>.]<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1101\/gr.158601","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,27]],"date-time":"2002-07-27T00:00:34Z","timestamp":1027728034000},"page":"1511-1519","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":58,"title":["A Novel \u03b32-Herpesvirus of the Rhadinovirus 2 Lineage in Chimpanzees"],"prefix":"10.1101","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Vincent","family":"Lacoste","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Philippe","family":"Maucl\u00e8re","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guy","family":"Dubreuil","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"John","family":"Lewis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marie-Claude","family":"Georges-Courbot","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Antoine","family":"Gessain","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"246","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2001,9,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021111810460118000_11.9.1511.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1128\/JVI.74.2.1033-1037.2000"},{"key":"2021111810460118000_11.9.1511.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0042-6822(90)90107-3"},{"key":"2021111810460118000_11.9.1511.3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/290457a0"},{"key":"2021111810460118000_11.9.1511.4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1128\/JVI.74.1.584-590.2000"},{"key":"2021111810460118000_11.9.1511.5","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8458","DOI":"10.1128\/JVI.72.10.8458-8459.1998","article-title":"Gammaherpesvirus sequence comparisons.","volume":"72","author":"Bosch","year":"1998","journal-title":"J. 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