Acts upstream of or within spermatogenesis. Predicted to be located in cytoplasmic vesicle. Predicted to be active in Golgi apparatus. Used to study male infertility. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in spermatogenic failure 6. Orthologous to human SPATA16 (spermatogenesis associated 16). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]