Defining a core genome for the herpesvirales and elucidating their evolutionary relationship with the caudovirales

The order Herpesvirales encompasses a wide variety of important and widely distributed human pathogens, including the Varicella-Zoster Virus, Human Cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus. During the last decades, similarities in the viral cycle and the structure of some of their proteins with those...