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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Virology. 2015 Nov 5;487:215–221. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.09.026

Figure 1. Diagram of the structure of the herpes simplex virus genome.

Figure 1

The top row shows the long (L) component and the short (S) component of the HSV genome. The bottom row shows the unique sequences as a line and the boxes denote the repeated sequences. UL = unique long component sequences; US = unique short component sequences; RL and RL′ = inverted repeats bounding the long component; RS and RS′ denote inverted repeats bounding the S component. a = terminal repeat also located at the L/S junction.