Category:GO:0046153 ! ommochrome catabolic process

name: ommochrome catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "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." [ISBN:0198506732]
synonym: "ommochrome breakdown" EXACT []
synonym: "ommochrome catabolism" EXACT []
synonym: "ommochrome degradation" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0009056 ! catabolic process
is_a: GO:0046151 ! eye pigment catabolic process
is_a: GO:0046152 ! ommochrome metabolic process
is_a: GO:0046159 ! ocellus pigment catabolic process

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0046153</GOterm>
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