Term Information

Accession
GO:0046152
Name
ommochrome metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
ommochrome metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving ommochromes, any of a large group of natural polycyclic pigments commonly found in the Arthropoda, particularly in the ommatidia of the compound eye. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0046152 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of ommochrome metabolic process (GO:0046152)
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ommochrome metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  ocellus pigment metabolic process (GO:0046158)
ommochrome metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  organic cyclic compound metabolic process (GO:1901360)
ommochrome metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  eye pigment metabolic process (GO:0042441)
ommochrome metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  cellular aromatic compound metabolic process (GO:0006725)
ommochrome metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  heterocycle metabolic process (GO:0046483)
Children of ommochrome metabolic process (GO:0046152)
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ommochrome biosynthetic process (GO:0006727) [is_a relation] is_a  ommochrome metabolic process
ommochrome catabolic process (GO:0046153) [is_a relation] is_a  ommochrome metabolic process
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