Table 1.
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