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		danieltillett on April 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brazilians welcome genetically-modified mosquito t... This has basically already been done using a bacteria called Wolbachia [0]. [0] http://www.eliminatedengue.com/our-research/wolbachia

jimworm on April 28, 2014 [–]

Thanks to your cue, I found a candidate gene that might fit the bill called Medea [0]. Wolbachia itself won't cause catastrophic sex-ratio imbalances, so does not cause a "White Plague" scenario.

[0] http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/bio2.0/engineering_in_th...

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