1. TSUKAMOTO, Katsumi: Discovery of spawning area of the Japanese eel. Nature, 356(6372), 789-791, 1992.
2. FRICKE Hans and Katsumi TSUKAMOTO: Seamounts and the mystery of eel spawning. Naturwissenschaften, 85, 290- 291, 1998.
3. TSUKAMOTO, Katsumi, Tae-Won LEE and Noritaka MOCHIOKA: Synchronized spawning of Anguilla japonica inferred by otolith daily ring of the leptocepahli. Ichthyological Research, 45 (2), 187-193, 1998.
4. AOYAMA, Jun and Katsumi TSUKAMOTO: Evolution of the freshwater eels. Naturwissenschaften, 84(1), 17-21, 1997.
5. TSUKAMOTO, Katsumi and Jun AOYAMA: Evolution of the freshwater eels of the genus Anugilla : a probable scenario. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 52 (1-3), 139-148, 1998.
6. AOYAMA, Jun, Mutsumi NISHIDA and Katsumi TSUKAMOTO: Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the freshwater eel, genus Anguilla. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 20 (3), 450-459, 2001.
7. TSUKAMOTO, Katsumi, Izumi NAKAI and F-. V-. Tesch: Do all freshwater eels migrate?. Nature, 396 (6712), 635-636, 1998.
8. TSUKAMOTO, Katsumi. and Takaomi ARAI: Facultative catadromy of the eel, Anguilla japonica, between freshwater and seawater habitats. Marine Ecology of Progress Series, 220, 265-276, September 2001.