About the Authors

Henri A. Thomassen

Affiliations Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Comparative Zoology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Trevon Fuller

Affiliation Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Salvi Asefi-Najafabady

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Julia A. G. Shiplacoff

Affiliation Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Prime M. Mulembakani

Affiliation Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Seth Blumberg

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sara C. Johnston

Affiliation United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fredrick, Maryland, United States of America

Neville K. Kisalu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Timothée L. Kinkela

Affiliation Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Joseph N. Fair

Affiliation Global Viral Forecasting, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Nathan D. Wolfe

Affiliations Global Viral Forecasting, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Stanford University, Program in Human Biology, Stanford, California, United States of America

Robert L. Shongo

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Matthew LeBreton

Affiliation Global Viral Forecasting, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Hermann Meyer

Affiliation Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

Linda L. Wright

Affiliation The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jean-Jacques Muyembe

Affiliation National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Wolfgang Buermann

Affiliations Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Emile Okitolonda

Affiliation Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Lisa E. Hensley

Affiliation Medical Countermeasures Initiative, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America

James O. Lloyd-Smith

Affiliations Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Thomas B. Smith

Affiliations Center for Tropical Research, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Anne W. Rimoin

arimoin@ucla.edu

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HAT TF SB JOLS TBS AWR. Performed the experiments: HAT JAGS TF. Analyzed the data: HAT SA-N. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA-N PMM SCJ NKK TLK JNF NDW RLS ML HM LLW JJM WB EO LEH AWR. Wrote the paper: HAT TF TBS AWR.