ommochrome metabolic process
id: GO:0046152
name: ommochrome metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False
Description: 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.
Child Functions
id | name |
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GO:0006727 | ommochrome biosynthetic process |
GO:0046153 | ommochrome catabolic process |
Parent Functions
id | name |
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GO:0006725 | cellular aromatic compound metabolic process |
GO:0042441 | eye pigment metabolic process |
GO:0046158 | ocellus pigment metabolic process |
GO:0046483 | heterocycle metabolic process |