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Is this the end of the mosquito?    
Scientists could wipe out the world's entire population of mosquitoes in less than a year, it has emerged.
They believe that releasing genetically modified insects into the wild would totally destroy the creatures and with them malaria, the deadly disease they spread.


British biologist Dr Austin Burt claims the latest genetic technology could wipe out four-fifths of all mosquitoes within 36 weeks.

Scientists hope extinction of the insects would soon follow, says a report today in New Scientist.

However, ecologists warn that wiping out a species could have 'unforeseen consequences'. They point out that mosquitoes pollinate flowers and provide an important food source for fish, turtles, frogs, birds and bats.

Experts have considered genetically 'tweaking' the mosquito to make it less able to transmit the parasites that trigger malaria.

The proposal by Dr Burt, an evolutionary biologist at Imperial College, London, involves adding a gene that affects breeding - called HEG - to the mosquito.

If an insect 'doctored' to carry the gene bred with an unmodified mosquito, the offspring would also carry the gene.

In the next generation if two insects carrying the gene mated, they would be unable to produce any offspring.

Dr Burt believes that releasing enough GM insects to make up one per cent of local populations would lead to the gene spreading 'like wildfire'.

It could kill four-fifths of the population within 12 generations - as little as 36 weeks - says the report.

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