. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Sep 15.

Published in final edited form as: Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Nov 30;146:2–19. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2022.11.007

Table 1.

List of viruses encoding miRNAs.

Virus Family/Subfamily	Virus	Host	# pre-miRNAs	# mature miRNAs
Alphaherpesvirinae	Herpes Simplex Virus 1	Human	9^a/18^b	27
	Herpes Simplex Virus 2	Human	18	24
	Varicella Zoster Virus	Human	1^c	1^c
	Herpes B Virus	Rhesus macaque	10	12
	Rhesus macaque rhadinovirus	Rhesus macaque	7	15
	Japanese macaque rhadinovirus	Rhesus macaque	15	23
	Herpesvirus saimiri	New World Primates	3	6
	Pseudorabiesvirus	Swine	13	13
	Bovine Herpesvirus 1	Cattle	10	12
	Marek’s Disease Virus type 1/2	Chicken	14	26/36
Betaherpesvirinae	Human Cytomegalovirus	Human	12	22
	Human Herpesvirus 6A/B	Human	4	8
	Rhesus Cytomegalovirus	Rhesus	17	17
	Mouse Cytomegalovirus	Mouse	18	21
	Rat Cytomegalovirus	Rat	14	24
Gammaherpesvirinae	Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus	Human	12	25
	Epstein-Barr Virus	Human	25	44
	Rhesus Lymphocryptovirus	Rhesus	35	68
	Herpesvirus papio	Baboon	4	8
Polyomaviridae	Merkel Cell Polyomavirus	Human	1	2
	JC Polyomavirus	Human	1	2
	BK Polyomavirus	Human	1	2
	Simian Virus 40	Rhesus macaque	1	2
	Murine Polyomavirus	Mouse	1	2
Papillomaviridae	HPV17	Human	1	1
	HPV47	Human	1	1
	HPV41	Human	1	1
	FCPV	Avian	2	2
Retroviridae	Bovine Leukemia Virus 1	Cattle	5	10
Ascoviridae	Heliothis virescens ascovirus	Insect	1	1
Baculoviridae	Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrosis virus	Insect	4^d	4
Baculoviridae	Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrovirus	Insect	5^d	5

only miRNAs shown to be RISC-associated are shown

reported miRNAs

presence of this miRNA is controversial [22–25], see above for discussion.

miRNAs have not been confirmed to be RISC-associated