Predicted to enable microtubule binding activity. Predicted to be involved in cilium assembly. Predicted to act upstream of or within cellular response to reactive oxygen species and flagellated sperm motility. Located in sperm fibrous sheath. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in primary ciliary dyskinesia 6. Orthologous to human NME8 (NME/NM23 family member 8). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]