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

Eales et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9:359   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-359