The chemical reactions and pathways involving ether lipids, lipids that contain (normally) one lipid alcohol in ether linkage to one of the carbon atoms (normally C-1) of glycerol.
fatty acid metabolic process +
glycerol ether biosynthetic process +
glycerol ether catabolic process +
glycerolipid metabolic process +
isoprenoid metabolic process +
lipid modification +
membrane lipid metabolic process +
neutral lipid metabolic process +
oligosaccharide-lipid intermediate biosynthetic process +