In August, our paper analyzing traits associated with mammals exposed to Ebola lineages was published. We collated information from published reports on detection and then used boosted regression trees to examine trends associated with species that have tested positive for Ebola. The mammals infected tended to be large, frugivorous, and had slow life-histories.
JP Schmidt, SP Maher, JM Drake, T Huang, MJ Farrell and BA Han. Ecological indicators of mammal exposure to Ebolavirus 374 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0337
Maher Lab - Computational Wildlife Ecology 