We investigate bulk and shear viscosities of the gluon plasma withinrelaxation time approximation to an effective Boltzmann-Vlasov type kinetictheory by viewing the plasma as describable in terms of quasigluon excitationswith temperature dependent self-energies. The found temperature dependence ofthe transport coefficients agrees fairly well with available lattice QCDresults. The impact of some details in the quasigluon dispersion relation onthe specific shear viscosity is discussed.

Viscosities of the quasigluon plasma