Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Acts upstream of or within several processes, including meiotic nuclear division; meiotic sister chromatid cohesion; and positive regulation of maintenance of meiotic sister chromatid cohesion, centromeric. Located in kinetochore. Is expressed in nervous system and oocyte. Orthologous to human SGO2 (shugoshin 2).