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The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of eye pigments, any general or particular coloring matter in living organisms, found or utilized in the eye. The chemical reactions and pathways involving a pigment, any general or particular coloring matter in living organisms, resulting in the deposition or aggregation of pigment in an organism, tissue or cell. The chemical reactions and pathways involving pigment, any general or particular coloring matter in living organisms, e.g. melanin, occurring during the deposition of coloring matter in an organ or organism. Establishment of a pattern of pigment in the eye of an organism. The chemical reactions and pathways involving rhodopsin, a brilliant purplish-red, light-sensitive visual pigment found in the rod cells of the retinas. 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. The chemical reactions and pathways involving eye pigments, any general or particular coloring matter in living organisms, found or utilized in the eye. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of eye pigments, any general or particular coloring matter in living organisms, found or utilized in the eye. The developmental process that results in the deposition of coloring matter in an organism, tissue or cell.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: eye pigment metabolic process
Acc: GO:0042441
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The chemical reactions and pathways involving eye pigments, any general or particular coloring matter in living organisms, found or utilized in the eye.
Synonyms:
  • eye pigment metabolism
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 2 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 47 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0042441 - eye pigment metabolic process (interactive image map)
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