Enables steroid dehydrogenase activity. Involved in steroid catabolic process. Predicted to be located in intracellular membrane-bounded organelle. Expressed in head neurons; hypodermis; tail neurons; and terminal bulb. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis 13; fundus albipunctatus; and night blindness. Is an ortholog of several human genes including DHRS9 (dehydrogenase/reductase 9); HSD17B6 (hydroxysteroid 17-beta dehydrogenase 6); and RDH5 (retinol dehydrogenase 5).
Map position created from combination of previous interpolated map position (based on known location of sequence) and allele information. Therefore this is not a genetic map position based on recombination frequencies or genetic experiments. This was done on advice of the CGC.