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% Fakesubsubsection:Soil \textit{Chloroflexi} have been found to assimilate  Soil \textit{Chloroflexi} have previously been identified in DNA-SIP studies as assimilating $^{13}$C from cellulose and, like our findings, were also found to be underrepresented in culture collections \citep{Schellenberger_2010}. The  \textit{Chloroflexi} identified as cellulose degraders degrading \textit{Chloroflexi}  in this study are also only distantly related to isolates \ref{tab:cell}. Chloroflexi are among the  six most abundant soil phyla commonly recovered from soil microbial diversity  surveys \citep{Janssen2006}. Chloroflexi are typically not as as abundant as  \textit{Verrucomicrobia} but are roughly as abundant as \textit{Bacteroidetes}  and \textit{Planctomycetes}types  \citep{Janssen2006}. Four of five $^{13}$C-cellulose responsive \textit{Chloroflexi} identified in this study are  annotated as belonging to the \textit{Herpetosiphon} although the  \textit{Herpetosiphon} SSU rRNA gene sequences from this study from  

previously implicated in cellulose degradation. Planctomycetes is the  least studied of the three phyla and only one Planctomycetes isolate can  grow on cellulose. None of the seven \textit{Planctomycetes} cellulose degraders  identified in this experiment are closely related to isolates. Soil  \textit{Planctomycetes} may be significant contributors isolates, and furthermore, the importance of their contributions  tobacterial  cellulose degradation. degradation in soil is unknown.  \textit{Acidobacteria} did not appear to incorporate $^{13}$C from cellulose into DNA in our microcosms though \textit{Acidobacteria} have been  found to degrade cellulose in culture CITE and are a numerically significant  soil phylum CITE. \textit{Acidobacteria} have been shown to dominate at low nutrient availability (CITE: cederlund 2014), which may explain why they do not thrive under the nutrient replete experimental conditions in this study.  The \textit{Acidobacteria} in our microcosms were mainly annotated as belonging to the "XX" group.NEED TO DEVELOP THIS FURTHER --  N-limitation and Acido response probably important.  \subsection{Ecological strategies of soil microorganisms participating in the  decomposition of organic matter}