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Katsumi Tsukamoto

Katsumi Tsukamoto

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Environmental Sciences
Japan
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
83
Citations
21761
World Ranking
848
National Ranking
8

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
83
Citations
21893
World Ranking
3555
National Ranking
223

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Katsumi Tsukamoto is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their academic work spans multiple fields and subfields, with a focus on Health Professions and Arts and Humanities.

The main fields of study that characterize Tsukamoto's research include:

  • Health Professions
  • Arts and Humanities

Within these fields, Tsukamoto's work delves into specific subfields, such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Philosophy

The research topics covered by Tsukamoto reflect interdisciplinary interests, concentrating on the intersection of health, social issues, and narrative identity. These topics include:

  • Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
  • Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
  • Health, Medicine and Society

Tsukamoto has contributed scholarly articles to established publication venues. One notable venue is the Société Française d'Ichtyologie, where the following paper was published:

  • Early life history and description of larval stages of an amphidromous goby, Sicyopterus lagocephalus (Gobioidei: Sicydiinae), 2020, Société Française d'Ichtyologie

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Tsukamoto's work. Frequent co-authors across the research include:

  • Pierre Valade
  • Clara Lord
  • Henri Grondin
  • Pierre Bosc
  • Laura Taillebois

Best Publications

  • Discovery of the spawning area for Japanese eel

    Katsumi Tsukamoto

  • Do all freshwater eels migrate

    Katsumi Tsukamoto;Izumi Nakai;W-.V. Tesch

  • Oceanic spawning ecology of freshwater eels in the western North Pacific

    Katsumi Tsukamoto;Seinen Chow;Tsuguo Otake;Hiroaki Kurogi

  • Facultative catadromy of the eel, Anguilla japonica, between freshwater and seawater habitats

    Katsumi Tsukamoto;Takaomi Arai

  • Basal actinopterygian relationships: a mitogenomic perspective on the phylogeny of the "ancient fish".

    Jun G Inoue;Masaki Miya;Katsumi Tsukamoto;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Oceanic biology: Spawning of eels near a seamount

    Katsumi Tsukamoto

  • A mitogenomic perspective on the basal teleostean phylogeny: resolving higher-level relationships with longer DNA sequences.

    Jun G. Inoue;Masaki Miya;Katsumi Tsukamoto;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Drastic changes in otolith microstructure and microchemistry accompanying the onset of metamorphosis in the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica

    Takaomi Arai;Tsuguo Otake;Katsumi Tsukamoto

  • Individual variation in feeding habitat use by adult female green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas): are they obligately neritic herbivores?

    Hideo Hatase;Katsufumi Sato;Manami Yamaguchi;Kotaro Takahashi

  • Migration, speciation, and the evolution of diadromy in anguillid eels

    K Tsukamoto;J Aoyama;M J Miller

  • Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the freshwater eels genus Anguilla based on the whole mitochondrial genome sequences.

    Yuki Minegishi;Jun Aoyama;Jun G. Inoue;Masaki Miya

  • Evolution of the freshwater eels.

    Jun Aoyama;Katsumi Tsukamoto

  • Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the Japanese sardine Sardinops melanostictus

    Jun G Inoue;Masaki Miya;Katsumi Tsukamoto;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Size-dependent mortality of red sea bream, Pagrus major, juveniles released with fluorescent otolith-tags in News Bay, Japan

    K. Tsukamoto;H. Kuwada;J. Hirokawa;M. Oya

  • Rapid genome reshaping by multiple-gene loss after whole-genome duplication in teleost fish suggested by mathematical modeling.

    Jun Inoue;Jun Inoue;Yukuto Sato;Yukuto Sato;Robert Sinclair;Katsumi Tsukamoto;Katsumi Tsukamoto

  • Deep-ocean origin of the freshwater eels

    Jun G. Inoue;Masaki Miya;Michael J. Miller;Tetsuya Sado

  • Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the freshwater eel, genus Anguilla.

    Jun Aoyama;Mutsumi Nishida;Katsumi Tsukamoto

  • Evolution of the Deep-Sea Gulper Eel Mitochondrial Genomes: Large-Scale Gene Rearrangements Originated Within the Eels

    Jun G. Inoue;Masaki Miya;Katsumi Tsukamoto;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Oceanic migration and spawning of anguillid eels.

    K. Tsukamoto

  • Primitive duplicate Hox clusters in the European eel's genome.

    Christiaan V. Henkel;Erik Burgerhout;Daniëlle L. de Wijze;Ron P. Dirks

  • Recruitment mechanisms of tropical eels Anguilla spp. and implications for the evolution of oceanic migration in the genus Anguilla

    Takaomi Arai;Daniel Limbong;Tsuguo Otake;Katsumi Tsukamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun Aoyama
Jun Aoyama University of Tokyo
Michael J. Miller
Michael J. Miller University of Tokyo
Takaomi Arai
Takaomi Arai Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Mutsumi Nishida
Mutsumi Nishida University of the Ryukyus
Eric Feunteun
Eric Feunteun French National Museum of Natural History
Toyoji Kaneko
Toyoji Kaneko University of Tokyo
Masaki Miya
Masaki Miya Natural History Museum and Institute
Reiji Masuda
Reiji Masuda Kyoto University
Toshio Takeuchi
Toshio Takeuchi Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Masaru Tanaka
Masaru Tanaka Kyoto University

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