Term Name: juvenile hormone catabolic process
Synonyms: juvenile hormone breakdown, juvenile hormone catabolism, juvenile hormone degradation
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of juvenile hormones, the three sesquiterpenoid derivatives that function to maintain the larval state of insects at molting and that may be required for other processes, e.g. oogenesis.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0006719]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is a type of: hormone catabolic process juvenile hormone metabolic process sesquiterpenoid catabolic process
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of juvenile hormone catabolic process
positively regulated by: positive regulation of juvenile hormone catabolic process
regulated by: regulation of juvenile hormone catabolic process