Predicted to be involved in cilium assembly and protein localization to ciliary transition zone. Predicted to act upstream of or within in utero embryonic development; nervous system development; and regulation of smoothened signaling pathway. Predicted to be located in ciliary transition zone; extracellular space; and membrane. Predicted to be part of MKS complex. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Joubert syndrome 13. Orthologous to human TCTN1 (tectonic family member 1). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]