Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.1.0)
Predicted to enable identical protein binding activity. Predicted to be involved in DNA damage response; mitochondrial protein catabolic process; and mitophagy by internal vacuole formation. Predicted to act upstream of or within cell differentiation and spermatogenesis. Predicted to be located in mitochondrion and sperm flagellum. Predicted to be active in mitochondrial outer membrane. Orthologous to human SPATA18 (spermatogenesis associated 18).