Involved in cartilage development. Predicted to be located in ciliary basal body. Predicted to be part of plasma membrane protein complex. Predicted to be active in ciliary membrane. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome and Weyers acrofacial dysostosis. Orthologous to human EVC (EvC ciliary complex subunit 1). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]