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Biosynthetic genes for many antibiotics evolved hundreds of millions of years ago. Resistance genes evolved concurrently among neighboring bacteria. If most neighbors to antibiotic producers are resistant, what is the selective advantage that prevented loss of the biosynthetic genes over millions of years?
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