AmiGO 2: Term Details for "pigment catabolic process" (GO:0046149)

Accession: GO:0046149
Name: pigment catabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: pigment breakdown, pigment catabolism, pigment degradation
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of a pigment, any general or particular coloring matter in living organisms, e.g. melanin. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0046149 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to pigment catabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to pigment catabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for pigment catabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
pigment catabolic process	is_a	pigment metabolic process (GO:0042440)

subject	relation	object
chlorophyll catabolic process (GO:0015996)	is_a	pigment catabolic process
eye pigment catabolic process (GO:0046151)	is_a	pigment catabolic process
heme catabolic process (GO:0042167)	is_a	pigment catabolic process
melanin catabolic process (GO:0046150)	is_a	pigment catabolic process
ocellus pigment catabolic process (GO:0046159)	is_a	pigment catabolic process
anthocyanin-containing compound catabolic process (GO:0046284)	is_a	pigment catabolic process

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