Figure 5. Effect of aminergic compounds on flying ability and survival.

(a) Flying ability of females in response to injection of aminergic compounds at various concentrations after CO₂ knockdown (N = 15). Effects were grouped in 3 classes: in green - no effect; in orange- significant effect, but 50% of females recovered within 3 h; in red- significant effect, recovery lower than 50% within 3 h. The experiment was performed in a minimum of 3 independent repeats. Curves were analysed by non-linear regression (one phase association, constraint: plateau level lower than 0.7, extra sum of squares F- test, p<0.05 is significant). ND-not determined (b) Survival rate of 15 females injected with compounds that caused significant effects on flight recovery (N = 15 per experiment, 3 repeats, Student's t-test, p<0.05 is significant).