Predicted to enable carbohydrate binding activity and integrin binding activity. Predicted to be involved in cellular response to virus; lymphatic endothelial cell migration; and xenophagy. Predicted to act upstream of or within T cell costimulation and plasma cell differentiation. Predicted to be located in cytosol. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. Orthologous to human LGALS8 (galectin 8). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]