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Table 1 Expert evolutionary biology methodological protocols.

From: Methodology capture: discriminating between the "best" and the rest of community practice

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

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