2016 - 2016 Shell reconstruction and taxonomy of Shikamaia akasakaensis Ozaki, 1968 (Alatoconchidae; Ambonychioidea; Bivalvia) from the middle Permian of Japan
2016 - 2016 Specimen investigation in Malaya University of Malaysia
Kaito Asato, Kentaro Nakayama, Takuya Imai. Case study of the convergent evolution in the color patterns in the freshwater bivalves. Scientific Reports. 2022. 12. 1
Kaito Asato, Tomoki Kase. Gigantic scaphopods (Mollusca) from the Permian Akasaka Limestone, central Japan. Journal of Paleontology. 2021. 95. 4. 748-762
Takahiro Hirano, Kaito Asato, Shûhei Yamamoto, Yui Takahashi, Satoshi Chiba. Cretaceous amber fossils highlight the evolutionary history and morphological conservatism of land snails. Scientific Reports. 2019. 9. 1. 15886-15886
Kazuki Miura, Hokuto Izumi, Yuya Saito, Kaito Asato, Junjiro N. Negishi, Kazuo Ito, Akio Oomori. Assessment of a unionid freshwater mussel (Pronodularia japanensis) population in an agricultural channel during the 4 years following reintroduction. Landscape and Ecological Engineering. 2018. 14. 1. 157-164
Molluscan Fossils Tell Us More than Dinosaurs - New Findings from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation at the Dinosaur Excavation Site in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
(The 5th International Symposium on Asian Dinosaurs 2023 in Hwaseong, Korea 2023)
Unveiling New Taxonomic Traits through Fossilized Periostracum: A Reclassification in the Cretaceous Bivalve Trigonioidoidea (Palaeoheterodonta)
(International Conference of Bivalved Molluscs: Bivalves - Where Are We Going? (Cambridge) 2023)
Novel attempt to link extant and extinct lineages from the ecological perspective: case study in the Cretaceous pond snail without supporting synapomorphies
(2nd Asian Palaeontological Congress, Tokyo 2023)
Novel nanoscale taxonomic traits provided by organic fossils: Reclassification in the Cretaceous bivalve Trigonioidoidea (Palaeoheterodonta)
(2nd Asian Palaeontological Congress, Tokyo 2023)
2022/08 - Unitas Malacologica 1st prize, Student Presentation Competition Fossilize organic periostracum from the Dinosaur era: new insights into phylogeny and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions in palaeoheterodontids