I wonder if the chemicals produced by the bacteria could be synthesized and made into a useful medicine. Perhaps useful for immunocompromised patients?
Antibiotics that have names ending in -mycin often come from bacteria.
I wonder if human-caused antibiotic resistance turns around and harms the critters who were originally using that antibiotic as self defense?
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?