Acts upstream of or within eating behavior and receptor localization to non-motile cilium. Predicted to be located in cytoplasm. Predicted to be part of BBSome. Used to study Bardet-Biedl syndrome 18. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Bardet-Biedl syndrome 18. Orthologous to human BBIP1 (BBSome interacting protein 1). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]