ommochrome catabolic process
id: GO:0046153
name: ommochrome catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of ommochromes, any of a large group of natural polycyclic pigments commonly found in the Arthropoda, particularly in the ommatidia of the compound eye.
Parent Functions
| id | name |
|---|---|
| GO:0046151 | eye pigment catabolic process |
| GO:0046152 | ommochrome metabolic process |
| GO:0046159 | ocellus pigment catabolic process |
| GO:0046700 | heterocycle catabolic process |
