Thank you so much, Martin, for agreeing to the collaboration. I am very excited about the insights that will come from the experiment.

This work is a chapter from Ananya Jana's PhD. We collaborated on this wonderful work with Dr. Sumanta Bagchi, Prof. Kavita Isvaran, and Prof. Praveen Karanth.

I was supported by a PhD fellowship from the CSIR India at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and a postdoctoral fellowship from the European Research Council (ERC) at Technische Universität Dresden. The open access was funded by Projekt DEAL.

We found that the genetic diversity of the host affects the gut microbial diversity.