Predicted to enable rRNA binding activity. Predicted to be a structural constituent of ribosome. Predicted to be involved in mitochondrial translation. Predicted to be located in mitochondrion. Predicted to be part of mitochondrial large ribosomal subunit and mitochondrial small ribosomal subunit. Orthologous to human MRPL16 (mitochondrial ribosomal protein L16). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]