Conservation plots of LMP1 amino acid residues translated from annotated EBV genomes derived from NPC tumors (NPC), spontaneous LCLs (sLCL), and sLCLs typed with China1 LMP1 sequence (China1, sLCL) or, China1 and derivative hybrid sequences (China1 + derivatives, sLCL) [37,90,92,93,96,97,98]. Conservation plots were generated in CLC Main Workbench 6 and compared to a consensus sequence. A consensus sequence was generated from the combined sequences of NPC and sLCL samples by majority with no gaps and was included in all conservation plots to constrain the number of amino acids to the same total number in all comparisons.