Table. Comparison of gorilla amplicon to other herpesviruses*.

Gorilla amplicon identity	HSV-1	HSV-2	MaHV-1	PaHV-2	HHV-3	HHV-4	HHV-5	HHV-6	HHV-8	EHV-1
DNA, %	99.3	93.6	85.3	86.0	53.9	61.2	49.3	43.3	48.6	65.1
Protein, %	99.2	94.6	90.1	90.1	65.7	48.8	39.9	45.9	46.0	68.6

*Pairwise alignment of the gorilla amplicon DNA sequence (GenBank accession no. KJ396198) and predicted amino acid sequence of the corresponding region of HSV-1 (HHV-1; AFI98948), HSV-2 (HHV-2; AGI44412), MaHV-1 (AAT67222); PaHV-2 (YP_443877), HHV-3 (varicella zoster virus; ABF21820), HHV-4 (Epstein-Barr virus; YP_401712), HHV-5 (human cytomegalovirus; AAP37469), HHV6 (BAF93477), HHV-8 (Kaposi sarcoma virus; ACY00400), and EHV-1 (ADI96155). DNA–DNA alignments were performed by using the Wilbur-Lipman Method of the MegAlign (DNAStar, Madison, WI, USA) sequence alignment program (Ktuple = 3; gap penalty = 3; window = 20). Protein–protein alignments were performed by using the Lipman-Pearson method (Ktuple = 2; gap penalty = 4; gap length penalty = 12). EHV, equid herpesvirus; HSV, herpes simplex virus; HHV, human herpesvirus; MaHV, Macacine herpesvirus; PaHV, Papiine herpesvirus.