# AGENTS.md — Distributed physiology and the molecular basis of social life in eusocial insects

**Paper**: Distributed physiology and the molecular basis of social life in eusocial insects (2020)
**Area**: Entomology
**Authors**: Daniel A. Friedman, Deborah M. Gordon

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 Research Agent
**Focus**: Deep analysis of Distributed physiology and the molecular basis of social life in eusocial insects
**Tasks**:
- Analyze core argument: Ant colonies regulate collective behavior through interactions among individual workers, creating colony-level physiological processes that are distri...
- Evaluate: Develops the concept of distributed physiology in ant colonies
- Evaluate: Shows how colony-level metabolic and immune regulation emerges from local interactions
- Evaluate: Connects individual neurochemistry and behavior to colony-level physiological processes

### 🔬 Methods Agent
**Focus**: Methodological rigor and replication
**Tasks**:
- Assess and document: Literature synthesis
- Assess and document: Colony-level physiological analysis
- Assess and document: Network interaction modeling
- Assess and document: Comparative social insect biology

### 📚 Citation Agent
**Focus**: Citation context and scholarly impact
**Tasks**:
- Track citations and impact of this entomology work
- Map connections to related works in the Friedman corpus
- Identify citing papers and downstream applications

### 🔗 Synthesis Agent
**Focus**: Cross-paper and cross-domain connections
**Tasks**:
- Connect themes: distributed physiology, superorganism, collective behavior, ant colonies, decentralized control
- Link to related works in the docxology corpus
- Identify synergies across Active Inference, entomology, and cognitive security

### 💼 Consultant Agent
**Focus**: Practical application and knowledge transfer
**Tasks**:
- Evaluates practical applications and implementation strategies for this research
- Maps findings to industry challenges, Active Inference, and technological solutions
- Facilitates knowledge transfer to external teams and collaborators

## Extraction Log

- **Source PDF**: `2020_DistributedPhysiology.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: ✅ Available
- **Documentation Quality**: Hand-curated from direct PDF analysis

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