Protein involved in outer spore wall assembly; likely involved directly in dityrosine layer assembly; may be involved in response to high salt and changes in carbon source; SWAT-GFP, seamless-GFP and mCherry fusion proteins localize to the endoplasmic reticulum; deletion mutant has decreased spore survival in Drosophila feces; OSW7 has a paralog, SHE10, that arose from the whole genome duplication; paralogs are redundant for spore wall dityrosine assembly
