The molecular basis of meiotic crossover distribution

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My laboratory has identified the molecular basis of a gene responsible for establishing the distribution of crossover events in meiosis of Caenorhabditis elegans.  This is a significant result because the phenotype o rec-1 is unique in that it alters the position of the measured crossover event without any other measurable effects on frequency of recombination, fecundity or developmental processes.  A notable feature of the rec-1 gene is that it is poorly conserved at the level of primary sequence with other species, even though all species characterized to date show a meiotic pattern, which is another way of saying that the distribution of crossing over is not uniform along a chromosome.  There are a number of explanations for this apparent paradox; however the hypothesis that will be tested here is that rec-1 is an example of a