Data from: Caste-biased patterns of brain investment in the subterranean termite Reticulitermes flavipes

Investment into neural tissue is expected to reflect the specific sensory
and behavioral capabilities of a particular organism. Termites are
eusocial insects that exhibit a caste system in which individuals can
develop into one of several morphologically and behaviorally distinct
castes. However, it is unclear to what extent these differences between
castes are reflected in the anatomy of the brain. To address this
question, we used deformation-based morphometry to conduct pairwise
comparisons between the brains of different castes in the eastern
subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes. The dataset presented here
consists of the confocal images of all the brains used in our analysis,
separated by caste. Brains from five castes are presented - workers,
soldiers, ergatoids, nymphs, and alates - which are further divided by
sex.