An   isolated   simian   adenovis   nucleic   acid   sequence   selected   from   the group consisting of: (a) Pan5 having the sequence of nucleic acids 1 to 36462 of SEQ ID NO:l (b) Pan6 having the sequence of nucleic acids 1 to 36604 of SEQ ID NO:5 (c) Pan7  having  the  sequence  of nucleic  acids  1  to  36535  of  SEQ  ID  NO:9 (d) SV1 having the sequence of nucleic acids 1 to 34264 of SEQ ID NO: 24 (e) SV25 having the sequence of nucleic acids 1 to 31044 of SEQ ID NO: 29 (f) SV39 having the sequence of to nucleic acids 1 to 34115 of SEQ ID NO: 34, and (g) a nucleic acid sequence complementary to the sequence of any of (a)-(f).