| id | GO:0046152 Detailed information
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| name | ommochrome metabolic process
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| namespace | biological_process
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| def | "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." [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]
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| synonym | "ommochrome metabolism" EXACT []
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| is_a | GO:0006725 ! cellular aromatic compound metabolic process
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| is_a | GO:0042441 ! eye pigment metabolic process
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| is_a | GO:0046158 ! ocellus pigment metabolic process
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| is_a | GO:0046483 ! heterocycle metabolic process
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