Table 1.

Expert evolutionary biology methodological protocols.

Protocol	Usage (number of articles)
Neighbor-joining, Parsimony, Maximum-likelihood	15
Neighbor-joining, Parsimony, Maximum-likelihood, JTT model	9
Maximum-likelihood	8
Neighbor-joining	8
Neighbor-joining, Parsimony, Maximum-likelihood, HKY model	8
Neighbor-joining, Maximum-likelihood	6
Maximum-likelihood, Bayesian	5
Parsimony, Maximum-likelihood	5
Neighbor-joining, Maximum-likelihood, HKY model	5
Neighbor-joining, Parsimony, Maximum-likelihood, Bayesian	5

A sample of the most commonly implemented methodological protocols used by the top five expert authors from the evolutionary biology field