On: Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark

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That's where a lot of antibiotics come from.

Antibiotics that have names ending in -mycin often come from bacteria.

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I wonder if human-caused antibiotic resistance turns around and harms the critters who were originally using that antibiotic as self defense?

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Thanks for that. Is it also true that those ending in -icillin (amoxicillin, penicillin, etc) come from fungi - a major competitor to bacteria? Or am I mistaken?